Following an Instapundit hyperlink to Barcepundit,  I read: Four years after the fall of the Taliban, Afghans express both vast support for the changes that have shaken their country and remarkable optimism for the future, despite the deep challenges they face in economic opportunity, security and basic services alike. An ABC News poll in Afghanistan —— the first national survey there sponsored by a news organization —— underscores those challenges in a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary Afghans. Poverty is deep, medical care and other basic services lacking, and infrastructure minimal. Nearly six in 10 have no electricity in their homes, and just 3 percent have it around the clock. Seven in 10 Afghan adults have no more than an elementary education; half have no schooling whatsoever. Half have household incomes under $500 a year. Yet despite these and other deprivations, 77 percent of Afghans say their country is headed in the right direction...(Read Full Post)