More on Afghanistan

In recent days, I've been writing a bit about the conflict there, or more precisely, the debate at home involving the cut-and-run crown. In the course of doing some background reading on the subject I discovered a new (to me) blog:

The Canada-Afghanistan Blog

It's a great resource. I highly recommend it.

Through the comments there I also rediscovered this marvelous entry by Mark at the Torch.

Mark also provides some URLs to good sites covering the history of that region of the world.