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Afghanistan: Weren’t we meant to be winning by now?
Twelve months ago, Marjah was a ghost town, deep in rural Helmand province and deep in the grip of the Taliban. The bazaar was closed and those who could run had fled; the rest cowered in their homes. It was never going to be easy to take from the Taliban. More than 120 Taliban and at least 60 coalition and Afghan troops paid the price with their lives. Today, the Afghan national flag flies over the town, the schools are open and the opium trade is under attack. Marjah is crawling back to something approaching normality. “Security is good now. Life is better,” Gul Ahmed, a wheat farmer, told the Kansas City Star. “Bad people like the Taliban cannot come here now. They took money from us….
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Twelve months ago, Marjah was a ghost town, deep in rural Helmand province and deep in the grip of the Taliban. The bazaar was closed and those who could run had fled; the rest cowered in their homes. It was never going to be easy to take from the Taliban. More than 120 Taliban and at least 60 coalition and Afghan troops paid the price with their lives. Today, the Afghan national flag flies over the town, the schools are open and the opium trade is under attack. Marjah is crawling back to something approaching normality. “Security is good now. Life is better,” Gul Ahmed, a wheat farmer, told the Kansas City Star. “Bad people like the Taliban cannot come here now. They took money from us….
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