As many of you know I'm often focused on events in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region. It's an interest of mine, our most important area in foreign policy, and it just always seemed generally useful to me for some people in any community to focus or specialize on certain issues. With that said, the subject of this next diary is giving me the urge to really start pre-gaming before the Superbowl.(go Saints! Marg bar Peyton!)
Hamid Karzai told a conference of western defense officials that he is considering the introduction of conscription throughout Afghanistan. This is the dumbest possible thing that he could do.
