The situation he found in Kabul this summer, [U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker] said, is considerably better than what he saw in 2002, when he helped set up the first post-Taliban government.
“It’s better than I thought,” he said. “The biggest problem in Kabul is traffic. Out in the provinces, even in Kandahar, you see traffic jams there. Kabul is a more liveable city by far than the Baghdad I left in 2009.”
-- Ryan Crocker to Jackson Diehl, two days before a complex insurgent assault on Kabul targeted NATO headquarters and Crocker's own embassy.
Don't forget the "military commander" quoted yesterday by NPR's Quil Lawrence about the attack in Wardak:
"The U.S. military says that they've take territory away from the insurgents, that this attack for example could have been done much better but was carried out in an amateurish way. There should have been a more complex attack waiting....One of the military commanders said that this kind of attack just shows that we're fighting not the A team but the B or C team of insurgents. They should have rushed the base after they blew down the walls."
Perhaps the B team was in Wardak because the A team was in Kabul?
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