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For the moment, pro-American feelings are widespread in Afghanistan. "The Americans, though they are not believers, helped us more than people of our own religion in the Middle East," one of Yunus Khalis's fighters said to me. If such an attitude is to last, American officials would do well to steer clear of Afghan politics. Attempts like the one to bring back Zahir Shah, to which the United States was a party, must not be repeated.

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