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01-19-2010, 10:07 AM
zuludelta
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Yeah I wonder if they're looking at that at all? Because Japan reconstruction seemed to work out real nice. Although Japan was a country based on good rules of law. Afghanistan is like the wild west meets Conan the Barbarian. Plus the abysmal education level and total lack of any kind of infrastructure makes them hard to help. They need help on every level. They got their work cut out for them. I know the Russians can't wait to be like, "I told you so."
I bet a lot of ex-Russian military guys are already doing the "I told you so" thing
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If the Soviet Union's failed invasion of Afghanistan during the 1980s taught us anything, it's that brute force and a show of military might isn't going to bend the will of the Afghanis who are hostile to the occupiers. It's a hard land populated by hard men who've been successfully repelling occupiers and invaders for centuries. If the combined unrestrained might of the Soviet Armed Forces (the largest in the world at the time) couldn't get the mujahs and their supporters to capitulate, I can't see ISAF succeeding where the Soviets failed. I keep thinking that the solution lies in successfully educating those in the rural areas up to a level where serious and impactful discourse can happen, as ignorance and a distrust of rationality is usually the first step towards religious fanaticism. Of course, education and the introduction of new ideas should be tempered with respect for cultural norms (but not to the extent that it undermines the goal of getting the local population to decide for themselves that siding with the mujahs isn't in their best interests as a member of the global community). I'm not going to try and second-guess ISAF, though. I'm sure they already have a lot of Civil Affairs people on the ground, but ensuring that they are safe and secure enough to do their jobs is probably a tall order.
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