Kabul Risks Political Meltdown
The assessment of NATO’s decade-long mission in Afghanistan looks grim compared with the amount of sacrifice in blood and in treasure. But if we compare today’s Afghanistan to the time when the Taliban ruled, we recognize considerable improvements in many aspects of life, especially human rights, education, health care, the economy, and media freedom. The biggest concern for us is how to make these achievements sustainable and irreversible after 2014, even as the threat of political meltdown in Kabul looms large.
Many in my country and in the region still remember the Geneva Accords of 1988, which led to the withdrawal of the Red Army from Afghanistan.… Seguir leyendo »