Governor Bill Haslam flew into the cities of Kabul, Kandahar and Bagram today. The Tennessee governor is on a Department of Defense tour that took him to Afghanistan after visiting Kuwait and Iraq on Monday.
In a conference call with reporters, Haslam said he was impressed with the mission Americans have taken up in Afghanistan . U.S. troops are rebuilding an economy in a country scarred by 30 years of war, where one of every four citizens is literate.
“… you can’t help but see significant progress that’s being made, whether its schools that are being opened or women that are allowed to have right that they didn’t have earlier, to villages that are being made safe. There is significant progress, but it is a tough, tough deal that we are in the middle of.”
The Tennessee National Guard has about 450 soldiers and airmen deployed in Afghanistan.
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