Over at NPR there’s a story about General Abdul Razig, who has done America’s on the ground dirty work in Afghanistan. One may well argue that the US never learns–dirty war all the time…
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/26/140751605/rags-to-riches-americas-man-in-kandahar?ft=1&f=1001
“Gen. Abdul Raziq is the acting police chief of Afghanistan's Kandahar province. At just 33, he's a former warlord whom the United States relied upon during its 2010 "surge" operation. But Raziq is also accused of brutal abuses of power, even massacring his rivals, according to a new article in The Atlantic.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/our-man-in-kandahar/8653/
Planet of the Blind 