Robert Crews

The gris­ly at­tacks on UN em­ploy­ees in Afghanistan re­flect un­der­ly­ing and mount­ing griev­ances that are be­ing ig­nored.

Afghan vot­ers may ex­hib­it cyn­i­cism to­wards con­tin­ued pa­tron­age, how­ev­er a na­tion­al po­lit­i­cal con­scious­ness is emerg­ing.