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Cautionary Tale on Afghanistan

January 27, 2007

As the most significant political scandal in at least a generation rocks the foundations of Colombian democracy, the Bush administration paradoxically appears to have selected it as a model for the path forward in Afghanistan.

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This article was originally published in The Boston Globe.

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