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In my view, the Western model of influencing the development of third world countries is doomed to failure.

Ahmed Rashid

Russia is now becoming increasingly nervous about a more permanent U.S. presence in Central Asia.
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Now the United States has to ensure that Afghanistan does not immediately collapse after being left to itself in 2014.
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George W. Bush and Tony Blair made the promise that they would not tolerate failed states because they could become a haven for terrorists. And today? The number increases.
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The West does not understand how to deal with states that no longer have any authority and are threatened by dissolution. Their efforts failed in Iraq as well as Afghanistan.
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Of course, many of them did support the Taliban. But you cannot equate all Pashtuns with the Taliban.
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The fact that there are no longer large units of Al Qaeda running around means you don’t need B-52s.
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The Afghans can’t point and say, “Oh, the Americans built that road. They built that telecommunications facility.
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We should remember that the Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan.
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This year we watched the collapse of Mali, a consequence of the Libyan civil war. The south of Libya and Mali, and Niger too, are well on the way to becoming a no-man’s land. After 9/11,
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There was a coming and going of Al Qaeda militants and leaders between Afghanistan and Pakistan for several years.
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It would have been better if the United Nations had sent a team to Mali right away to mediate between the government and the rebels. But where is the political initiative?
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The United States only knows one form of intervention and that is the military one. Everything depends on drawn weapons. We should, however, develop a wider scope of action. And we should learn to be patient.
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America does not hold to the colonial tradition. America came, liberated Afghanistan from the Taliban and al-Qaida, came to an arrangement with Hamid Karzai, wanted to organize elections as soon as possible and then withdraw.
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But all development programs of the United States and the European countries unfortunately exclude the private sector, which could make investments based on profitability.
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The strategy for peace-building in Afghanistan is economic aid, reconstruction, international security forces. On those lines, the U.S. has been extremely slow. And it has even blocked expanding security forces from Kabul to other cities.
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If Afghan soldiers continue to kill American soldiers as is happening these days, it can hardly be assumed that they will stay in Afghanistan in the long term. And what role are they to play?
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