What lessons should humanitarians take away from the past 20 years in Afghanistan? Was the role of Western aid agencies helpful or hurtful? Were they impartial or complicit?
In its rush to help Afghanistan, the humanitarian world risks superimposing costly, parallel systems that ignore what already exists: a functioning public health sector, Afghan NGOs waiting for support, and aid agencies that have operated amid a complex crisis for years. The West always acts like it knows better at the cost of local empowerment.
This sums up the future of Afghanistan. 250,000 lives lost, 20 years lost, trillions spent, and the United States managed to replace the Taliban and Al Qaeda with the Taliban, Al Qaeda and Haqqani as Interior Minister.
Millions are at risk of losing access to vital services as donors suspend support for government programmes under the Taliban.
Special inspector general says US officials failed to ‘implement a coherent strategy’ over 20 years in Afghanistan
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