“Made-in-Washington strategy will not reverse Afghanistan’s downward spiral unless it is complemented by a new, meaningful and pragmatic Afghan strategy.”
Washington’s new Afghan strategy – also called as “Af-Pak” – has made headlines in almost every international media outlet over the past week. From Washington to Kabul and many other capitals politicians have been digesting President Barrack Obama’s remarks of 27th March.
I see in Kabul people and officials are chanting and reiterating the motto of “new US strategy”.
The predominant fallacy has been the new strategy will heal all Afghanistan’s pains and fix all its wrongs.
In the coming months more US soldiers and civilians will land in Afghanistan to curb the Taliban and remedy other problems. But who will they work with in Afghanistan?
A government mired in corruption, incompetence and failure, and a bunch of warlords, power-brokers and criminals?
Made-in-Washington strategy will not reverse our downward spiral, our history has proven repeatedly.
What is our new strategy for success? Do we have any roadmap/strategy or even a vision how to tackle our own problems?
We have learned to boast about our “sovereignty, independence…” but on whose terms and on which guidance do we want to build our country?
Most of our problems have Afghan nature and need Afghan wisdom to solve them.
The new US strategy will inevitably fail unless it is complemented by a new, meaningful and pragmatic Afghan strategy.
The world needs to press Afghan leaders (particularly Hamid Karzai) to layout his plans to rid Afghanistan from corruption, inefficiency, warlordism and many other indigenous diseases.
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