A government watchdog says the United States’ 20 years in Afghanistan were marred by strategic problems, short-term thinking and cultural misunderstandings.
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The U.S. made short-term decisions and underestimated how long success would take, often doling out cash at a corruption-inducing clip and rapidly shunting troops between regions, leading to “20 one-year reconstruction efforts, rather than one 20-year effort.” The United States fundamentally didn’t understand Afghan politics or culture, according to SIGAR: It fueled corruption in some new institutions, set up a legal system many Afghans weren’t accustomed to, worsened local disputes by unintentionally backing one side and often failed to grapple with the country’s complex gender dynamics.
The U.S. military and aid agencies didn’t have enough qualified personnel on the ground, and they faced an “annual lobotomy” as experienced staff headed home and new people took their place — in one example, some U.S.
The U.S. government didn’t spend enough time tracking whether projects were successful or learning from mistakes, SIGAR argued.“Twenty years later, much has improved, and much has not,” the report said. “If the goal was to rebuild and leave behind a country that can sustain itself and pose little threat to U.S. national security interests, the overall picture is bleak.”The conflict in Afghanistan is the longest war in U.S. history. It dates back to the Sept.
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