Outside View: Afghan nation-building?

Outside View: Afghan nation-building?
Washington (UPI) Oct 1, 2009 - A report by Jordan Fabian in The Hill's Blog Briefing Room said U.S. Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn., stated that nation-building in Afghanistan similar to what the United States undertook in Iraq would unlikely achieve success because Afghanistan is "medieval" compared with the "20th-century country" Iraq. Roe said that winning the war in Afghanistan would take decades. He emphasized that the ... more

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