America’s excessive reaction to the 9/11 attacks was the prelude to a decade of damage and injustice on a vast scale. An understanding of what went wrong is essential to progress in the next ten years, says Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh.
Eight years, billions of dollars and thousands of Afghan lives require accountability. The international community swings from one extreme of trying to modernize every institution to uncritically embracing all that is "traditional." What should they do? A reply to Oliver Richmond.
The international intervention in Afghanistan is beset by problems. But it can still be put right if the strategy is “civilianised” and “Afghanised” under United Nations leadership, say Pierre Schori & Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh.
