What next for Afghanistan?

Nov 2nd, 2009 - guardian.co.uk

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What next for Afghanistan?

Judith Kipper Director of the Middle East programme at Washington's Institute of World Affairs

"Now he is president, I think we have to see whether Karzai has learned any lessons and whether he has the power and tools to govern in a different way. The idea of Afghanistan as a democratic, centralised government is something that has to be reconsidered. It is an extremely primitive country but they have a structure that works for them when people are not monkeying about with it.

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