Article: A `Flawed Vision' Of Afghanistan's Future

It is difficult to write a measured response to the two pieces {Free for All, April 16; Outlook, April 17} by Selig S. Harrison. Not only does he not understand what has happened in Afghanistan, but his flawed vision of the future is anathema to those of us who have spent years living in and studying about Afghanistan. (I began in 1949.)

Harrison contends that an Islamic fundamentalist clique dominates the resistance alliance. Not true. For one thing, the resistance must be divided into two major groupings: the Alliance of Seven of the Peshawar Merry-Go-Round and, more important, the regional resistance leaders inside Afghanistan.

The seven Peshawar leaders have been a major face to the ...

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