The New York Times Agency May 2010
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*FILE PHOTO* -- A photographer takes a portrait outside a photo studio in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1961. From presidential confidants in the White House Situation Room to anchors on cable television to ruminators at the city's think tanks, the view has settled in: Afghanistan is an ungovernable collection of tribes that has confounded every conqueror since Alexander the Great. Like a lot of received wisdom, it may well be correct. But as President Barack Obama debates whether to send more American troops to Afghanistan, and whether, more pointedly, he might be sending them down a black hole of civic hopelessness, American and Afghan scholars and diplomats say it is worth recalling four decades in the country's recent history, from the 1930s to the 1970s, when there was a semblance of a national government and Kabul was known as "the Paris of Central Asia." (Harrison Salisbury/The New York Times) 14077299
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