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Feingold: The war in Afghanistan has been called by many experts the forgotten war. The report released yesterday which will be discussed in the next panel notes just now how close we are to failure in Afghanistan yet despite the clear threats emanating from Afghanistan-Pakistan border region and testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen recently said, “In Afghanistan we do what we can. In Iraq we do what we must.” Is that the policy of the Bush Administration? That Afghanistan is of secondary importance to the national security of the United States?
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The people of Afghanistan received good news recently when the leaders of the 26 nations in NATO issued a joint statement at their summit meeting that said: "Contributing to peace and stability in Afghanistan is NATO's key priority." Unfortunately, those words alone won't solve the myriad problems of Afghanistan. They must be followed by action, writes Obaid Younossi.
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Five years after the war in Afghanistan began, the United States and other allied forces are fighting a resurgent Taliban. The battle lines have now shifted to villages, where the allies are trying to win over local residents with reconstruction efforts. Renee Montagne returns to Afghanistan for a series of reports.
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Afghanistan has had the largest refugee repatriation in the world in the last 30 years. The return of refugees is guided by the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MORR) and supported by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), International Organization of Migration (IOM), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Food Program (WFP), the World Health Organization (WHO), and a number of other national and international NGOs and donors. As of December 2007, approximately 3.5 million Afghans remained in neighboring countries. The U.S. provided more than $447.5 million in support to Afghan refugees, returnees, and other conflict victims between September 2001 and December 2007.
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Ashraf Ghani, former finance minister of Afghanistan and president of Kabul University, complained, "You cannot support private education and ignore public education." But that's typical of American aid. Having set up a government in Afghanistan, the United States stiffs it, preferring to channel aid money to private American contractors. Increasingly privatized, U.S. aid becomes just one more mechanism for transferring tax dollars to the pockets of rich Americans.
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Before the Soviet invasion, Afghanistan pursued a policy of neutrality and nonalignment in its foreign relations. After the December 1979 invasion, Afghanistan's foreign policy mirrored that of the Soviet Union. Most Western countries, including the United States, maintained small diplomatic missions in Kabul during the Soviet occupation. Repeated Taliban efforts to occupy Afghanistan's seat at the UN and Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) were unsuccessful.
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