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Of course, this isn’t the first time the United States has taken such a heady role. My friends in the development community suggest that USAID’s involvement (and failure) in Vietnam’s foreign assistance, economic development, and civil operations severely damaged the credibility of U.S. bilateral development assistance for years. Our experience in Iraq also should have taught us a few lessons.
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One might have thought that after spending roughly $23 billion on security assistance and another $20 billion on economic and governance assistance in that country, the outcome–insecurity, unemployment, and a faltering economy–would have told us that Washington isn’t very good at nation-building. There has been only minimal recovery from pre-war conditions, and a fair amount of criticism has been aimed at the Iraqi Relief and Reconstruction Fund, much of it from the U.S. Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction itself.
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But here we go again. Even though the failures in Iraq provided the impetus to begin some of the long-term planning being done today, we’re about to leap into Afghanistan and Pakistan with an echo of past optimism that U.S. nation-building efforts can succeed despite widespread evidence that they cannot.
@ The Bulletin
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Seems odd doesn’t it? Money falls from the sky to finance so-called nation building, which coincidentally has never succeeded but they won’t give up either.
Meanwhile the populous right here in the good ole USA goes without.
Why is that, is this not OUR government? Or perhaps it belongs to the corporate infiltrators making the laws for their own benefit?
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Way past time to reign in these greedy money dogs and make them sit.
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