Outside View: Afghan nation-building?
Washington (UPI) Oct 1, 2009 - A report by Jordan Fabian in The Hill's Blog Briefing Room said U.S. Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn., stated that nation-building in Afghanistan similar to what the United States undertook in Iraq would unlikely achieve success because Afghanistan is "medieval" compared with the "20th-century country" Iraq. Roe said that winning the war in Afghanistan would take decades. He emphasized that the ... more

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Armies from Alexander onward are laughing their arses off at the very notion! This is NOT IRAQ! In Iraq people can read, they lead civilized lifes and had grown beyond 'hunter and gatherer" society. In Afghanistan they still haven't done this!