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...Calil) and his translator, Wali Zarif (Wali Razaqui) to record and possibly join the hunt for Osama bin Laden. The foibles in the fiction prompt a host of questions that distract from the substantive reflection that the film would otherwise promote. Johnston aims to debunk the myths of the Afghani situation, but should have realized that original footage of a war zone’s unseen chaos speaks for itself...
Karzai has some legitimate campaign challenges. A senior Afghan official says Iran, Russia and Pakistan are throwing money at different candidates. A Kabul black-market money changer claimed that the dollar's recent rise against the afghani, from 52 to 45, was due to the sudden influx of dollars. "In my village," says Fida Mohammed, who is from the Shomali Plain near Kabul, "our elders are seeing who offers us most before telling us how we should vote...
Johnston aims to debunk the myths of the Afghani situation—Lars asks accusatorily, “Where’s the US military? Where’s CNN?”—and seems to want to extract the truth of U.S. foreign policy from its many layers of spin. So he should probably know better: Fictionalization obscures meaning, marginalizing from the public consciousness what deserves a place at the forefront. The stateside studio is the place for genre experimentation; original footage of a war zone’s unseen chaos speaks for itself...
With elections scheduled in June, time is running short for the United States to make good on its commitments to Afghanistan. While the challenges that remain may seem daunting, the passage of such a remarkable document gives us every hope that the Afghani people are closer to peace and stability than they have been in modern memory. Having come this far, the United States and the world must do their part to make sure that Afghanistan is in a position to make good on its constitution’s extraordinary promises...
...constitutions are nothing more than a long list of promises, and the constitution adopted in Afghanistan this month is no exception. That, however, should not dampen the Afghani people’s excitement or pride. After three weeks of intense debate and the near collapse of the talks on several occasions, the 502 representatives to the constitutional convention, or loya jirga, in Kabul approved, by a voice vote, a document that the international community is appropriately celebrated as “one of the most enlightened constitutions in the Islamic world,” according the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan...