News Unfit To Print

Why, because it's good news. It a success story in the war on terror.

Afghanistan is getting better. Peter Bergen, a veteran journalist and certainly not a George W. Bush cheerleader, writes:

Based on what Americans have been seeing in the news media about Afghanistan lately, there may not be many who believed President George W. Bush . . . when he told the United Nations that the "Afghan people are on the path to democracy and freedom." But then again, not many Americans know what Afghanistan was like before the American-led invasion.

Bergen recently visited the country after a few years' absence. His surprised verdict: "What we are seeing in Afghanistan is far from perfect, but it's better than so-so."