Op-Ed – Protecting America’s Afghan Allies

Opinion | No Afghan Ally Left Behind

How to learn from our failure to help our Vietnamese friends.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/31/opinion/31topping.html?_r=1

A TALIBAN spokesman announced Thursday that the group is poring over the tens of thousands of classified military documents published by WikiLeaks this week, looking for the names of pro-American Afghans.

As in the past, those identified will likely be added to lists of people to be assassinated, or rounded up once the United States and its allies leave the country.