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A schoolgirl sits in a classroom at Syed Pasha school, which was built by Canadian troops, near Afghanistan's Kandahar Air Field on September 8, 2009.

Sometimes the simplest picture can provide meaningful human context to a news story. There's a lot of news out of Afghanistan, about NATO troops, air strikes, IEDs, election anomalies and the like. This picture makes me wonder what all of it will mean for this student.

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