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I think we're getting off track here.
The Taliban was really bad. However, drudging it up over and over again to justify how poorly plans have been implemented in Afghanistan is a recipe for nothing.
Afghanistan: Plans need to change or no?”
Yes and no. The justification for the anti-war clan is “things are not working”.
So the drugs and all unresolved problems are put as fault on the Allies shoulders as the Taliban period was a peaceful and quite time
, deliberately ignoring:
- The constant war again the “Northern Alliance”
- The reign of terror against all minorities (religious and ethnic)
- The reign of terror of a mad Theocratic State
- The training and exportation of this “model” in others states and nations.
It is too late to change plan. Plans have to be fully implemented, knowing it will cost time, money and human lives.
In one hand military operations, full strength.
Other hands, development: Buy all the opium production, destroyed it: First you give to the peasants something to eat and something they can produce, then you cut the war lords from their income AND you spoil the drug traffic…
Building health Rural Centre, and markets, repair roads, give jobs to people. That is NGO and Charities are good at, small economical business project development, USAID and others know how to do it.
Massive reconstruction programme with Post War Rehabilitation Programme: Very Helpful to calm down the Post War Traumatic Disorder. You have a society which lived the last 30 years either in war or in “peace” of terror.
A need of training of the local authorities in respect with Human Right Conventions and standards is obvious. So, need to create schools in Kabul for the future leaders.
We will probably teach some of the future enemies if things go wrong but most of the pupils will be the next politicians and leaders.
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