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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (76698)2/23/2003 3:54:00 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
<any chance of keeping Afghanistan from sliding right back into chaos >

The roadmap (in this order) is:

1: enforce peace and the rule of law (any law, even Sharia).
2: establish a "good business climate". Use scarce resources to build schools and roads.
3. then, private foreign investment will come in
4. the economy will grow
5. over several decades, the civil institutions that are a precursor to democracy are built.
6. a stable, prosperous democracy is formed.

There is no shortcut to this roadmap. Notice, we haven't even begun to do Step One (dismantling the warlord armies, extending the writ of the Afghan "government" beyond Kabul). The most useful "foreign aid" we could give the Afghans (and the 50 other poorest nations) is to end all trade restraints and domestic subsidies on agriculture.
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