Good Morning Afghanistan

This story is just too cool:

On the Radio, Afghans Call Nation to a New Day

In a country where commuters are likely to travel by donkey cart and where many walk long distances for water, a breakfast radio show calls for something of a cultural leap.

Much like the helicopter-borne American troops who clatter across the skies in their hunt for the remnants of Qaeda and Taliban forces, "Good Morning Afghanistan" is a graft from the distant world that has intruded on life here since Sept. 11.

Yet few changes have been more popular, with city dwellers and villagers alike listening in numbers that have stunned the young crew running the program from a dusty studio in Kabul, the capital.

And one of the top radio personalities is a woman, doing a job that a short while ago probably would have gotten her brains blown out.

Remember, though, we've done nothing to improve life in Afghanistan. Uh-huh, sure.