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Longtime foreign correspondent Frank Viviano offers CBS5.com's readers in the Bay Area and beyond his unique perspective on world affairs.

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The Brink Of Disaster In Afghanistan


U.S. Marines from 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, RCT 2nd Battalion 8th Marines Echo Co. manuever to clear two buildings where they have been taking enemy fire on July 4, 2009, in Mian Poshteh, Afghanistan.
Source: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

A death knoll rings out from churches throughout Italy. The bells toll for six Italian paratroopers, mostly young men in their twenties, victims of a suicide bomb in Kabul. But even louder than the bells are growing calls for Italy's withdrawal from the international peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, which mounted to a deafening chorus within hours of the September 17 attack.


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