J.D. JOHANNES: In Afghanistan, An Argendahb Awakening? “For the last four months I have been traveling Afghanistan looking for a place where the surge here may equal the effects of the 2007 Iraq Surge. If there is anywhere in Afghanistan where a movement similar to the Anbar Awakening that sprang up in Iraq’s Al Anbar province along the the Euphrates river in 2007 can be built, it is the Argendahb river valley west of Khandahar.”