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COMMENTS: The Staff of Life
NBC's Brian Williams was supposed to be the one reporting on Afghanistan as he anchored from Bagram AFB with military jets taking off in the background. Instead it fell to Jim Sciutto to file form Kabul for ABC. He pointed to the same problem Williams had found Wednesday, that the rising price of food is a greater threat to political stability than the guerrillas of the Taliban. As the price of bread has doubled in the past year, refugees are settling in tent cities on the outskirts of Kabul desperate for basic supplies: "In a country where three quarters of the average person's income goes to food the effects can be devastating."
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