Tonight had two quite interesting stories...
(a) Sarah Chayes quits reporting for NPR to raise money in Massachusetts with the aim of rebuilding a small village destroyed in the Afghan War. She then goes to Afghanistan and leads the rebuilding effort. Along the way, she runs up against corruption by a local warlord, social injustice to a business owner at the hands of that same warlord. You get a sense that Karzai, whom she knows and is in the story, has no authority and that the country is reverting back to pre-Taliban days...except where the Taliban are coming back. Ah, what $87B could have done there. Chayes was able to finish her rebuilding project.
(b) The other story is about Russia. How there is a big struggle between government and business (i.e. the super-rich oligarchs)...how there is a big debate going on about how much involvement business should have in government (gasp!), if any, and how oligarchs can actually go to prison for white collar crime. Quite astounding!
See it if you can.