Assessment of the West's Promises in Afghanistan's changes in Post-Taliban Era
Mojtaba Noruzi
(Ph.D. in Regional Studies from the University of Tehran; Former delegate of the Islamic Re-public of Iran's cultural attaché in Kabul)
Seventeen years ago, after the September 11 attacks and then the western coalition's raids on Af-ghanistan (with American leadership), Afghan people experienced a new-found hope to escape all the damages of several major wars they had suffered. This new-found hope originated from the American officials' many assurances and promises. Now that a fairly long time has passed since that invasion, we can review and have a formal assessment of these pledges and the extent they came into realization based on statistics and indices. This appraisal shows that the extent these promises were realized has had no acceptable ratio to the amount of claims, costs and hopes given to Afghanistan society. This failure is also rooted in several problems including the Ameri-cans deep unfamiliarity with the Afghanistan society; a short-term tactical treatment with Af-ghanistan's issues, and lack of a logical balance between what Afghanistan needed and what the American politicians really valued and paid attention to.
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