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The West is now morally obliged to leave the country in safe hands.

Behind the depressing news from Afghanistan are women achieving healthy social change, says an international journalist with wide experience in conflict zones all over the world.

In 1996, as a Grade 9 student in a Vancouver suburb, I read in the newspaper about the arrival of the Taliban into Kabul and their imposition of perhaps the most backwards, misogynist regime ever k

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By Rebecca Murray

VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 24, 2011/ Troy Media/ – When I first visited Afghanistan, not long after the fall of the Taliban, the physical signs of war were everywhere.

It's an often-cited myth that Afghanistan has repelled every foreign entity that has ever sought to enter its territory, a myth that journalist Christian Caryl has called the "mother of all clichés

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Ah, Afghanistan. Everything old is new again.

The key to lasting peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan is not in encouraging the culture of rewarding the insurgency through political deals, but in providing justice to the common Afghan