President Obama saidhis replacement of his top commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, with General David Petraeus will not slow U.S.efforts to win the Afghan war.
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His rather slow-witted replacement maintains the fiction that the clans respect the government's ownership of mineral resources.
But the slow death of local newspapers and their replacement by ever-larger media conglomerates means that news coverage is being managed by a shrinking number of people at a few mega-oulets.
Even a replacement who shares Powell's views will likely slow down the progress being made on the regulatory front, due to the complex nature of the technologies in question.