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Four steps to success in Afghanistan
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Four steps to success in Afghanistan
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The two old men shivered in the frigid December Afghan night, their hands rattling in the handcuffs that bound them. I pondered what to do. Polish soldiers had caught them an hour earlier as they dug in the ground along a newly paved road. The Polish suspected the men had been planting IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices.) The men swore they were merely irrigating their fields of winter wheat. As had happened countless times during my tour as an embedded combat adviser with the US Army in Ghazni Province, the fate of these men rested in my hands.
Were they elderly illiterate farmers or Taliban soldiers? Or both?
In the end, I asked members of the Afghan National Police to detain them for the evening and investigate the matter themselves in the morning. The Afghans agreed and took the men away in a police car. The next morning I learned the police had immediately let the men go, after they promised to turn themselves in the next day. But they never did. And as much as I wanted to go find the men myself and haul them to face a judge, I couldn’t: Afghanistan must be governed by Afghans if American forces are ever to leave it in peace.
Countless soldiers have faced a similar quandary in Afghanistan – and many more will do so in the future, now that the United States has committed itself to the country for another 10 years. I believe the most important policy we could adopt in Afghanistan is one that helps the Afghans effectively govern their country on their own.
To have any hope for success, the US and Afghanistan must accomplish these four goals.
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Now that the United States has committed itself to Afghanistan for another 10 years, the most important policy Washington could adopt in Afghanistan is one that helps the Afghans effectively govern their country on their own. To have any hope for success, the US and Afghanistan must accomplish these four goals.
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By Matt Zeller, July 18, 2012
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