“The priority is to promote rural development, through building the capabilities of the state at local level and directing more resources to communities.”
Matt Waldman, Oxfam policy advisor in Afghanistan, said:
“Peace in Afghanistan cannot be achieved without more determined efforts to reduce poverty. ”
This view is supported by the governor of Kabul as well who was the guest of the ‘Voice of America’ program in Persian on April 22, 2008.
The governor of Kabul who must have close relationship with
Americans yet he was very pessimistic about the role of the United States and the West in general in Afghanistan and showed his discontent about the occupation of his country by the occupation forces. People in Afghanistan, in the north, speak Persian which is called Dari in Afghanistan, one of the two major languages. He wants Afghanistan to be build not to be treated as a colony and to leave its governing affairs in the hand of Afghani people in collaboration with the international community. He complained about programs which have not been beneficial to the population because these programs did not include Afghani people and their needs and were created abroad in different western capitals to meet the needs of the occupation forces and their administration, the NGO’s. He believes that one the reasons behind the failure of “aid” is that people in charge of this program did not bother to ask the population about their needs and their priorities. He clearly believes that these programs helped NGO’s, the agent of the occupation, not Afghani people because Afghanistan needs competent work force and one way to get experienced workers is to be involved in your own governmental affairs. But apparently, most of the money goes towards maintaining the occupation administration, NGO’s and their family, rather to help Afghani people who know better than these imperialist and Zionist agents whose priority is to get information on population to be used in their suppression and liquidation to extend the occupation.
The governer of Kabul also did not consider Taliban as an enemy, who has been demonized by the enemy of Afghanistan and the region since they are our brothers and sisters, he said. We should solve our
problems with negotiation not guns, he emphasized.
So, it is obvious that the occupation forces have different priorities for Afghanistan which neither are in the interest of the people nor the region. Afghani population do not believe in neither occupation nor the “international community” mainly the rich western countries who are not interested in the well being of Afghani rather they are interested to turn Afghanistan into a dependent country where is not able to stand on its own feet, exactly like Iraq, and keep it as a consuming nation rather than a producing for its own needs using its own resources and human capital who are familiar with the needs of its own population.

You ask “Why do we just make the same mistakes time and again.” Not sure if that’s a rhetorical quesion or not. But Einstein I think, defined doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, as insanity.