Kansas in Middle East? How US has – and hasn’t – changed Afghanistan

Posted on AllSides December 3rd, 2019
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Afghanistan

The U.S. has spent more in Afghanistan than it did rebuilding Europe after World War II. The effort has produced a mixed record that will shape future nation-building efforts.

On a crisp early winter day in late 2003, Afghan President Hamid Karzai took a pair of scissors from a tray offered by a schoolgirl – she was dressed for the ceremonial occasion in a purple velvet brocade dress with a reddish orange headscarf – and cut a ribbon to officially inaugurate the resurfaced Kabul-Kandahar highway.

On hand was then-U.S. Ambassador...

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