One of the more interesting articles I've read on Afghanistan is this one
that someone on Slashdot pointed to yesterday.
http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2001/June/Afghan/index.html
It's not short, but it has a lot of information about the state of the
country and how it got this way.
G.
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