The Failure of Good Intentions

The Failure of Good Intentions
World Politics Review was kind enough to run a brief opinion piece on one of the many ways I see Afghanistan faltering under the U.S. military’s institutional rigidity. A snippet: Interviewing village and community elders in Central Afghanistan can reveal a tremendous amount about what Afghans believe are the country’s most urgent problems. Security is certainly among them. One of the few lessons from Iraq that is applicable to Afghanistan is the pressing need for more troop presence, off o