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Twitter and appealed to ordinary afghans to pick up arms and go and sign up to join a popular uprising. trying to get the war lords who fought for so many years here back involved. that s not necessarily going to be a magic bullet, john, because the primary place those war lords were working was in the north of the country, the northern alliance, five of the provincial capitals that have been taken in these past few days have been in the north. so no sense that anyone knows how to stop this massive taliban attack offensive in its tracks and meanwhile, yes, u.s. embassy apparently making contingency plans, looking at reducing its footprint here, that of course flies in the face of what had been promised to the afghan government and that only then serves to further deteriorate moral here on the ground, john. that is huge clarissa, you ....