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	<title><![CDATA[The Clock Is Ticking for Afghanistan]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stewart-nusbaumer/the-clock-is-ticking-for_b_216596.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p><em>Kabul, Afghanistan </em>- Everything takes twice as long in Afghanistan. Security concerns, infrastructure disruptions, cultural sluggishness, epidemic corruption all converge to make life extremely cautious and the pace excruciating slow. So, what I promised to do in two weeks, write a follow-up blog, has taken me four weeks. I blame it on the war and on Afghans. </p>

<p>In my last blog,<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stewart-nusbaumer/what-i-learned-in-afghani_b_201279.html"> "What I Learned In Afghanistan," </a>I wrote that the evolving Obama Administration's strategy was changing the central mission...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2009-06-17T11:54:00-04:00</date_published>
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