Comments on: Afghanistan: Aid spike is over

By: unsecured bad

unsecured bad — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:11:35 +0000

hey :-)
its very unconventional point of view.
Good post.
realy good post

thx :-)

By: bboyd

bboyd — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:04:28 +0000

Dear Peter,
Yes, I also saw that great article at Afghanistanica . [Note to readers: see http://afghanistanica.com/2007/08/05/afghanistan-is-sort-of-irrelevant/#comments ].

Everything you said is just so, woefully, true.

Thanks for writing in and for all the support. We Afghanistan-watchers have to stick together. . .

Bonnie

By: Péter

Péter — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:18:47 +0000

Dear Bonnie, Josh,
For people regularly blogging on Afghanistan this is a bit like having one's nose rubbed in the dirt, actually, isn't it? Not altogether unexpected, but still…
This reminds me, C over at Afghanistanica has, somewhat coincidentally it seems to me, just the other day accounted of having had two hours of free time getting away from the particular intensive language course he's attending, obviously with Afghanistan on his mind… And just look at the post he's written in that spare time he found, and his concluding remarks.
As to whether this is ‘angling for failure’ (I think I’m literally quoting from a past post of yours on the issue here, Josh)… Well, certainly this all is not about angling for some big success in Afghanistan. And that already is astonishing.

By: Global Voices Online » Afghanistan: Six years on

Global Voices Online » Afghanistan: Six years on — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:04:27 +0000

[...] Six years after its invasion of Afghanistan, the United States has announced it will curb aid to the war-torn country. Bonnie Boyd thinks this does not make much sense at all; and Joshua Foust again disagrees with The Economist, arguing that things in Afghanistan are not as bad as they have been for much of the past thirty years. Share This [...]

By: Joshua Foust

Joshua Foust — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:15:41 +0000

Seriously. I’ve been carping for years about how stupid our underinvestment in Afghanistan is. In the Peter Bergen article you linked a few days ago, he mentioned it is the lowest investment in post-conflict stability since WWII, and dwarfed by the Balkans… to say nothing of the fact that Iraq gets in about a month what Afghanistan gets in an entire year.

Sometimes I do wonder if the U.S. government really wants Afghanistan to fail.