Sandbagging Paktika?

Is it me, or is paying men in Paktika to fill sand bags perhaps not an ideal model for alternative livelihoods?  The CNN report is less skeptical, especially when it comes to the Paktika PRT: "115 soldiers and sailors covering an area slightly bigger than Maryland -- a little goes a long way here," reports correspondant Jennifer Eccleston.

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