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**Raj_Copi_Jin** · 05-01-2007, 01:14 PM

First you have establish real success criteria. Afghanistan will NEVER been anything like a 2nd or 1st world country. NEVER. So we have to agree what we mean by success and victory. 40% literacy? A semi stable government that can do a, b, c & d? No more than 10 attacks per month per region? Electricity to 50% of the people 75% of the time? Female enrollment in schools of X? Infant mortality rate of Z? GDP growth of Q%/yr for S years?

You have to be able to write it down and then you have to ignore all the rest and say the hell with it. So if it takes a given level of military action to secure those goals then good. If you can't achieve those goals, find new ones or abandon the effort completely and leave Afghanistan. After all even Rudyard Kipling wrote about what a hell hole it was. This is nothing new.

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Raj_Copi_Jin Join Date Oct 2005 Age 48 Posts 4,533 Senior Member	First you have establish real success criteria. Afghanistan will NEVER been anything like a 2nd or 1st world country. NEVER. So we have to agree what we mean by success and victory. 40% literacy? A semi stable government that can do a, b, c & d? No more than 10 attacks per month per region? Electricity to 50% of the people 75% of the time? Female enrollment in schools of X? Infant mortality rate of Z? GDP growth of Q%/yr for S years? You have to be able to write it down and then you have to ignore all the rest and say the hell with it. So if it takes a given level of military action to secure those goals then good. If you can't achieve those goals, find new ones or abandon the effort completely and leave Afghanistan. After all even Rudyard Kipling wrote about what a hell hole it was. This is nothing new.
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