IRAQ

NewYork Times: Look at Afghanistan ... and fear for Iraq by NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

Here's a foreign affairs quiz.

1. In the two years since the war in Afghanistan, opium production has:

a) Virtually been eliminated by Hamid Karzai's government and American forces.

b) Declined 30 per cent, but eradication is not expected until 2008.

c) Soared 19-fold and become the major source of the world's heroin.

2. In Paktika and Zabul, two religiously conservative parts of Afghanistan, the number of children going to school:

a) Has quintupled, with most girls finishing at least Grade 3.

b) Has risen 40 per cent, although few girls go to school.

c) Has plummeted as poor security has closed nearly all schools there.

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