Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts

Sunday, December 9, 2012

WAR: AFGHANISTAN AND SURROUNDING AREAS

History shows Dutch have been more successful than Americans

They call themselves ‘flower strewers’, establishing themselves as a compassionate friend of the locals and targeting to isolate the Taliban influence from the region. The result has been quite encouraging with a jaw dropping black statistic – only 6 Dutch soldiers died in 2008 in Afghanistan, compared to 51 British, 32 Canadian and 155 American soldiers. The Dutch idea of ‘development engaging locals’ is reaping rich dividend. The Dutch strategy involved actually holding themselves back for a year to intellectually understand the complexities – social, economic, political, demographic etc – of the region from a distance. Consequently, when they finally occupied the region in 2008, it was without any resistance – even the Taliban restrains themselves from interference, and not surprisingly.

From opening schools in the region, raising the attendees from 12,000 to 50,000, building 100 health centres with 31 doctors (previously the figure was just 2!) and making infant mortality rate drop from 36% to 25%, the Dutch are procreating ‘socially’ like nobody’s business. If Obama needs to really get it up, we think the Dutch would have no issues giving him the blue pill.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri

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Thursday, November 29, 2012

The State of the World: Hunger, Conflict & Death

Ban Ki-moon, Secy. General, UN on how member states must work together. A B&E exclusive...

We all recognize today’s perils. A global financial crisis. A global energy crisis. A global food crisis. Trade talks have collapsed, yet again. There are new outbreaks of war and violence. Climate change ever more clearly threatens our planet. We say that global problems demand global solutions.

And yet, do we act? In truth, today, we also face a crisis of a different sort – the challenge of global leadership. New centers of power and leadership are emerging – in Asia, Latin America and across the newly developed world. In this new world, the challenges are increasingly those of collaboration, not confrontation. Nations can no longer protect their interests, or advance the well-being of their people, without the partnership of the rest.

Yet I see a danger of nations looking inward rather than toward a shared future. I see a danger of retreating from the progress we have made, particularly in the realm of economic development and fairness in sharing the fruits of global growth. Yes, global growth has raised billions of people out of poverty. Yet if you are among the world’s poor, you have never felt poverty so sharply. Yes, international law and justice have never been so widely embraced. Yet those living in nations where human rights are abused have never been so vulnerable.

Yes, most of us live in peace and security. Yet violence is deepening in many nations: Afghanistan, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, and Sudan. Their problems are part of the development emergency we face. Over the past year, the price of fuel, food, and commodities rose alarmingly. Wealthy countries worry about recession, while the poor can no longer afford to eat.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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