USA: Kill, destroy and leave is what we always do.

[Manzareh]

http://mydd.com/users/fairleft/posts...villages-leave

[RevolutionThroughReason]

Finally something we can agree with.

[Hashmat]

Dear Manzareh,
America did not go to Afghanistan to kill, destroy and then leave. Our role in Afghanistan is to assist the Afghan government in maintaining security, reconstructing the country, training the national police and army, and providing a lawful environment for free and fair elections. I think most people on this forum would agree with me that Afghans are better off now than they were in 2001. Compare Afghanistan prior to 2001 and see how much improvement has taken place, whether it has been in sector of education, healthcare, economy, global partnership or communication. The list goes on and on! People did not have access to basic healthcare, clean drinking water or food. Today, almost all Afghans have access to these basic needs. The U.S. will continue to help Afghanistan and its people to get rid of the terrorists from its soil, so that people can live in peace and stability.
Respectfully Yours,
Hashmat
Digital Engagement Team U.S. CENTCOM
www.centcom.mil
https://www.facebook.com/CENTCOMDari?ref=hl

[Joey_Gladstonezai]

Dear Manzareh,
America did not go to Afghanistan to kill, destroy and then leave. Our role in Afghanistan is to assist the Afghan government in maintaining security, reconstructing the country, training the national police and army, and providing a lawful environment for free and fair elections. I think most people on this forum would agree with me that Afghans are better off now than they were in 2001. Compare Afghanistan prior to 2001 and see how much improvement has taken place, whether it has been in sector of education, healthcare, economy, global partnership or communication. The list goes on and on! People did not have access to basic healthcare, clean drinking water or food. Today, almost all Afghans have access to these basic needs. The U.S. will continue to help Afghanistan and its people to get rid of the terrorists from its soil, so that people can live in peace and stability.
Respectfully Yours,
Hashmat
Digital Engagement Team U.S. CENTCOM
www.centcom.mil
https://www.facebook.com/CENTCOMDari?ref=hl

According to the USAid itself, only around 12% of rural Afghans have access to safe drinking water.

http://afghanistan.usaid.gov/en/USAI...anitation_SWSS

And millions of Afghan children suffer from malnourishment and stunting due to a lack of access to food. Internally displaced Afghans who flee your bombardments in rural villages and number to at least half a million have access to very little, if any, food or water. Same case with refugees who number to several million. All due to the imposition of this destructive war which no one with an ounce of pity for humanity supports. Also, the security situation in Afghanistan is very dire and to say otherwise is simply being disingenuous.

[Badlun]

Let us forget about who is speaking this but be honest and reply to the post of Hashmat that whether Afghanistan is now better than 2001 or not?

[RevolutionThroughReason]

Hasmat you're lying

Here is an outline of major failures of the U.S. Mission in Afghanistan; which elucidates that America has NOT done any of the things you mentioned.

Afghanistan: Example of how not to give aid - Joel Brinkley - POLITICO.com

In Parwan Province a few weeks ago, a woman accused of adultery crouched in the dirt as a friend handed her husband an AK-47 assault rifle. He shot her multiple times, continuing to fire even after she collapsed, dead, as about 150 men stood on a nearby hillside, cheering. He then posted a video of the repulsive event for the world to see. The Afghan government did nothing. But then the video went viral, and government officials were forced to say something: The Taliban did it, they said — even though the video proved that was not so.

Javid Ahmad, an Afghan writer as well as a former aid worker, figuratively shakes his head over the furor the woman’s death caused.
“She got attention because she got a tape,” he said. “But a lot of things like that are happening all the time but are basically undocumented, so people don’t know about it. It’s ubiquitous.”

Ten years after the first Western human-rights workers arrived, “honor killings happen on a day-to-day basis,” Ahmad asserted. “It’s gruesome. It’s really, really bad.” As for those Western workers, “I’m not sure the U.S. or Western footprint can help that at all. It’s not going away.” Ahmad is now with the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington.

SO your support for the Afghan Government has not brought security. Afghan customs are still openly victimizing women with Government and thereby U.S. approval.

In any case, the U.S. special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction said in his most recent quarterly report that, when security for aid workers is figured in, the total nonmilitary funds Washington has appropriated since 2002 “is approximately $100 billion.”

What has all that spending accomplished? “The short answer is not much,” said Masood Farivar, a senior Afghan journalist. “Undoubtedly some of the work” carried out by Western agencies “has had a positive impact on people’s lives. But this has been the exception, not the rule.”

This spring, for example, Human Rights Watch published a damning report on the status of women. It quoted numerous victims, like one 15-year-old girl who took refuge with a family that drugged her and forced her into prostitution. Finally, the girl was thrown into jail.

So Afghans do not have their basic needs met and this is done by the Afghan Government with U.S. support and sanction.

Real security in Afghanistan depends on people's basic needs being met | Michael Keating | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

In 2011, a quarter of the population received food support, and over a million people got emergency drinking water. 55% of Afghan children under five are stunted, and their chances later in life of being self-reliant and contributing to economic growth are impaired. Female illiteracy and maternal mortality rates are among the highest in the world.

Land, soil, forests, water resources, and mineral deposits are degraded by over three decades of conflict, prey to illicit exploitation. The incidence of disasters, including floods, earthquakes, avalanches and droughts, is increasing. Drug production is responding to international demand, as farmers seek incomes to survive. About half the population is under 18, with few prospects, particularly in rapidly growing cities.

These are not the ingredients of stability. A long-term partnership is needed to tackle problems that are now inter-generational.

First, protection of civilians, accountability and the rule of law must be hardwired into plans for the transition, training and support of security forces. Strengthening a police force that is professional, answerable and responsive to civilians is essential.

Second, funding for security must be matched by funding of a practical, needs-based development agenda that focuses on what Afghans want, especially jobs, functioning institutions and basic services. They also need help to deal with urgent and extensive humanitarian needs.

Afghans still have insufficient infrastructure, water supplies and food supply, which is still at the level when the Taliban were in power.

By comparison the Taliban damage to civilian infrastructure in Suicide Attacks and Targeted Civilian Killings was fractional compared to money wasted. America has failed to provide necessities in Afghanistan. The excuse that the Taliban prevent supplying basic needs disproven by thus.

Hashmat you sir are blatantly lying.

[RevolutionThroughReason]

Let us forget about who is speaking this but be honest and reply to the post of Hashmat that whether Afghanistan is now better than 2001 or not?

No it is important to point out Hashmat is lying, because this is the basis of any further policy between Afghanistan and America

According to Human Rights Watch and Country research, America has not provide any qualitative benefit to Afghanistan.

[faye]

badlun, why are you so naive as to expect anything but propaganda, from this bot?

[randolph85]

hashmat comparing afg in 2001 to today is complete intellectual dishonesty, the changes and the effects amount to blackmail. look, almost everyone here dislikes the taliban but half of america dislikes their gov't. the west and america in particular suffocated afghanistan when it was ruled by the taliban despite the talibs willingness to gain recognition from the UN/USA. instead of recognizing a gov't that had more control of afg since zahir shah, the world body chose to recognize the tragic comedy of the rabbani gov't.

so afg is invaded, occupied, countless die, billions pumped in with minimal effect, and centcom is trying to act like afg is like the uae now.

amazing.