“THE CHALLENGE FOR THE USA IN DEALING WITH THE ONGOING ISSUE IN AFGHANISTAN ”

Thomas Henry
2 min readAug 24, 2021

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Here’s something I need to share today. It’s about how the US saw consistently that the most ideal approach to make a consistent country with some closeness to law and order was to set up good state foundations. Enabled by various subject matter experts and as of now obsolete theories, the US military laid out this test as a planning issue: Afghanistan required state foundations, a functioning security force, courts, and capable government workers, so the course of action was to pour in resources and move inclination from untouchables.

As far as I might be concerned, the reality of the situation is US pioneers should have known better. This made me think how Melissa Dell and Pablo Querubín record where America took on a tantamount progressive method in Vietnam, and it exploded astoundingly. Spots that were assaulted to quell the Viet Cong ended up being impressively more solid than the counter American uprising.

Fundamentally more telling is the US military’s own new inclusion with Iraq. As an investigation by Eli Berman, Jacob Shapiro, and Joseph Felter show, the flood there worked much better when Americans endeavored to win hearts and minds by fostering the assistance of close-by social events.

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