NOW ZAD, Afghanistan — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates took a stroll on Tuesday through a village market in this former Taliban sanctuary in Helmand Province, but the lone street of shops was so sleepy that it looked as if everyone had been told to stay home. Notes from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and other areas of conflict in the post-9/11 era. Go to the Blog » In a sense, they had. “I wish you’d come back tomorrow,” Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson, the commander of the...
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