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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: JohnM who wrote (98551)5/19/2003 3:46:03 PM
From: aladin  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
JohnM,

... They promise to make life better for the Afghan population. Nope.

Based on what? Coverage from a media looking for and reporting only problems? Or is it an expectation on your part that they would be a suburb of the US by now?

Certainly the UN agencies involved all have axes to grind with the administration.

In many cases I wonder about all of our expectations. How quickly can we build an infrastructure from scratch for a population with a very poor literacy rate? Thats the situation in Afghanistan.

I think you will find lots of folks in Afghanistan who find life substantially worse or better based on their political leanings (Taliban or other), but its certainly better in the capital region and Kandahar from any perspective.

But if you like religious police or beating women, its certainly gone to hell :-)

As for Iraq, its hard to believe anyone can be serious about the situation yet. If I looked at Japan and Germany - we have a much better situation for electricity, water and sewer at this point post-war than we did there. (But all that proves is we bombed less).

Could we do more - yes. Did we hire the wrong guy - yes. Is ORHA in need of some new people - again yes. Does that mean the post-war is a failure? No. Its similar to all the carping about the war that occurred during the fighting around Basra - a bit premature.

John
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