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To follow up, I think the project could be defined as 'the civilizing of Afghanistan". Reduce the chance of it nurturing terrorism, helping calm relations betw
by ryanobjc 13y ago
To follow up, I think the project could be defined as 'the civilizing of Afghanistan". Reduce the chance of it nurturing terrorism, helping calm relations between neighbors, reducing the rates of violence.
Of course, in the UN framework this is not really up to someone else. Sovereignty and all of that.
- abcd_f 13y ago> I think the project could be defined as 'the civilizing of Afghanistan". Reduce the chance of it nurturing terrorism, helping calm relations between neighbors, reducing the rates of violence. Awesome! Sounds like a full-fleshed plan to me.
- rdl 13y agoI'd be pretty comfortable with a Chinese in Africa style program to build infrastructure and business while working with existing warlords and dictators on the ground. You might want some national level control (Taliban) to keep the civil war under control, but it would be a loose federation. The us really would never want to be seen working with even people like Dostrum, let alone the Taliban. I had a semi ironic Massoud sticker on my gun safe for a while , but even he was a pretty bad guy compared to non afghans.
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