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US President Obama’s decision to send 30k troops to Afghanistan will ‘determine the outcome of the eight-year U.S. engagement in Afghanistan and perhaps even the broader state-building process.’ The fresh troop surge points to ‘gradual expansion of the international military mission under McChrystal’s strategy.’ Even the American general [...]

‘To better understand Afghan public opinion on the conflict, and how the country can move towards a stable democracy,’ there are ‘underlying causes of insecurity in Afghanistan’ that have to be discussed and resolved. Based on the recent survey conducted by The Asia Foundation on Afghan people,’ insecurity is identified as the biggest problem [...]

Eight years of US military action in Afghanistan with an expense tab of a quarter of a trillion dollars, and Afghanistan is in worse condition, with less stable bordering countries, death filling the air, and a ranking of 181 out of 182 countries for human development indices. ‘Life expectancy has fallen to 43 years since the U.S. invasion. Forty [...]