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Afghanistan’s Booming Economy

While Boon wrote the Top Ten Headlines You Won't Read Today, I'll offer you one story that you won't read today in the NYTimes or the Washington Post:

"Psst, No One Will Believe This — Afghanistan Has a Booming Economy"

Bizzyblog's Tom Blumer asks:

Would it be fair to blame the 527 Media if Western companies lose out on the business opportunities in Afghanistan (just reading that phrase must seem bizarre to many)?

I will go one further and ask if Afghanistanis are losing out in Western investments courtesy of one-sided and bleak Western media reporting. If so, this would be yet another example of the Left-based media inadvertently hurting those who they claim to want to help. Ann Marlowe asked in the original Wall Street Journal op-ed, "If only American and other Western investors could see past the doomsayers, they too could play a part in the Afghan economic success story."

Hrm. Yeah, that's interesting. And who exactly are the doomsayers, again?