Surge: The Sequel
July 22nd, 2008 by Adam
Ann Marlowe writes in the Wall Street Journal that calls for a surge in Afghanistan are misguided and attempts to place a one-size-fits-all counterinsurgency strategy on the nation will exacerbate the current situation. Marlowe asserts, “Afghanistan’s problems are not the same as Iraq’s. Its people aren’t recovering from a brutal, all-controlling tyranny, but from decades of chaos and centuries of bad government. Afghanistan, unlike Iraq, is largely illiterate and has a relatively undeveloped civil society.” She suggests that greater developmental assistance and resolving the situation on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border is more relevant to stabilizing Afghanistan than more U.S. troops.
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