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  The Washington Old-Girls Network Takes On The Taliban

  Posted Tuesday, October 20, 2009 1:02 PM | By Dayo Olopade
  The news of the hour is a new vote in Afghanistan. This is good news for Peter Galbraith, a United Nations representative in Afghanistan who had been fired from the U.N. team for blasting Afghanistan's “tainted vote” in public. This new Washington- and Kabul-sanctioned runoff election, to be held on Nov. 7, may well delay an official White House announcement on more troop levels for “the good war.” But when discussing the Afghan crisis, which Daily Show co-creator Liz Winstead has taken to calling “Noplanistan”—the plight of women in the feudal, fractured, straight-dangerous nation should spring to mind ... (Read the rest of this article in DoubleX).
  
  Filed under: Hillary Clinton, afghanistan, Afghan elections, Madeline Albright, Ghost Wars, afghan women, women in government

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• Dayo Olopade is the Washington Reporter for the Root.

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