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A Fundamentally Flawed Afghan Policy November 01, 2009 / James Kunder
The key flaw in the current allied policy in Afghanistan is the obsessive focus on defeating the Taliban rather than focusing on the real problems of illiteracy, social deprivation and rural feudalism of which the Taliban are really an epiphenomenon. Policymakers must also put aside misleading analogies with Iraq, however tempting they may be, and consider Afghanistan in its own domestic context.



