Independent correspondent Michael Yon, who just returned from Afghanistan, writes that an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal — also filed from Afghanistan — gave readers a misleading impression of the security situation there. In the Journal, Ann Marlowe wrote:
The security situation is far better than the media and the $500-a-day security companies would have you believe. British-educated Minister of Communications Amirzai Sangin notes that Americans are losing opportunities due to fears about security: