Focus swift from military to civil affairs needed
One thing which concerns me with today's media coverage from Afghanistan and Iraq is that only military aspect is highlighted and regular headlines are informing mostly (western) military casualties. From my point of view capasity building by civilians would bring sustainable solution. This is not easy, mistakes occur as one can read below - but right approach might create circumstances where people in beneficiary country could see US and EU as practical partner instead of colonialist administrator or mastermind. When the project is made like desk plan in Washington or Brussels with some cooperation with state’s central government there always is a risk of more or less big gap between beneficiary needs and centralized aims. Some of these failures I have earlier described in my writings “ World Bank destroyed Albanian village in joint operation with corrupted Government… ” , " UN death Camps, EU money, local negligence ” and “ Squandering Kosovo’s Aid Funds ”. The key elemen...