[MtnGoat]

This is a really good..no great article.

As far as any kind of sustainable economic reconstruction in AFG has been less than 10%. Most of it has or was in the form of handouts and money giving to the key people. Which used some of it but pocketed most of it.

I think what could have worked it look at what the neighbors of Afghanistan to the north Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan; and to the south Pakistan are doing have been doing. Most have a sustainable economic in the form of incentives to former military and political leaders running major businesses. There is a tie between these leaders and DoS USAID and how it all ties back to making money or as part of a retirement plan. Yes you can say there is SOoo much corruption in Afghanistan, well sorry to break it to you, American is just as bad. But I people just care more about what will be reported and we do send our politicians to jail for it. Afghanistan has no sustainable economic because Afghans don't want it because most of Afghanistan is an agricultural based economics and has no real industrial based business. Yet if you look South and North; Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have almost the same and cane export agricultural produces to where? Afghanistan!!! NATO and all the economic reconstruction partners failed at developing anything along these lines. U.S. NG Agribusiness Development Team (ADT) did a great job of teaching locals and farmers how to be real farmers instead of being survivor farmers. Yet IMO USAID didn't do much for overall development. Yes the built some schools and updated the hospitals, but minimal outside of that.

The main issue is with Afghanistan is the psychology of the people. To many uneducated and the few that are educated how nothing to work for. The will of the people is built on a ancient system that is still like the caveman of this is mine and you can't have it. I could write on and on, but I don't care about that country. I pray what we have done will endure the test of time.

Once the NATO and US forces pull out, I would hate to see how bad it gets.