Interview w/Tribal Chief #8: Is Time Running Out?

SP:  Chief Zazai, we hear every day in the American press that things are "going wrong," "getting worse," "we are losing." Even in one of your recent e-mails to me, you said "time is running out, things are going more wrong." Can you give us some specifics? What exactly is "going wrong?" Why is "time running out?"

Chief Zazai: Let's start with the type of regime that the West, with all good intentions, has helped to set up in Afghanistan. I think it is  clear that the kind of democracy which...