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After all the hoopla about Afghanistan at the start of the week only ABC followed up. Martha Raddatz filed A Closer Look from her recent trip to Logar Province. She showed us what reinforcements look like when they cost $1m per soldier per year. Since January, the Tenth Mountain Division's Forward Operating Base Shank has grown from a population of 300 to 3,300. It is now "a huge military base with housing, logistics centers and an airstrip." In those ten months, the local village has prospered: its market now has street lights; its streets are paved; its people have healthcare; its commerce has quadrupled. In that time the division has suffered 28 deaths and "260 bear the scars of war."
Andrew Tyndall 12/4/09 9:37:57 pm

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