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From: barry levine
Date: Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 9:50 AM
Subject: re: For Afghans in Kunduz, Taliban Assault Is Just the Latest Affront
To: "letters@nytimes.com"
To the Editor:
Despite the paeans of his PR flacks, general David Petraeus' policy of arming and empowering sectarian militias rather than building multi-ethnic national institutions in Iraq fueled and fuels the civil war that continues to rage there. Disastrously, the U.S. has reproduced that policy in Afghanistan, with predictable results. Many Pashtuns in Kunduz, feeling excluded and aggrieved welcomed and abetted the latest Taliban campaign there.
Despite the paeans of his PR flacks, general David Petraeus' policy of arming and empowering sectarian militias rather than building multi-ethnic national institutions in Iraq fueled and fuels the civil war that continues to rage there. Disastrously, the U.S. has reproduced that policy in Afghanistan, with predictable results. Many Pashtuns in Kunduz, feeling excluded and aggrieved welcomed and abetted the latest Taliban campaign there.
It is not for the U.S. to build an Afghan nation that doesn't exist in Afghans' own minds. A confederation of tribal states may be the best solution in the end. But we must stop stoking their civil wars.
Barry Haskell Levine
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/world/asia/for-afghans-in-kunduz-taliban-assault-is-just-the-latest-affront.html?_r=0
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