in the south where you're facing the quetta shura taliban, groups of disaffected pashtun more or lesshave some sort of centralized authority structures. the insurgency looks a lot different than it does in the northeast where it tends to be more localized. and it's about local grievances and it's not so much... you can't really trust a lot of the conventional wisdom about the insurgency being merely directed from pakistan. so the nature of the fight differs really not just from region to region but province to province district to district. and in many cases from valley to valley. with respect to... with respect to the government, one of the things we found is that the afghan people are-- no surprise to anyone who's read the newspaper-- are quite disaffected with their government. after eight years of this war, it's very tough to see governance at the local level with very few exceptions. so if you go into a remote area of afghanistan, there's no visibility from the government of afghanistan. by contrast... to make matters worse, rather, there's a perception that the government of afg

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