tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19217611.post5282055679143078218..comments2024-03-28T09:13:04.373-04:00Comments on KIKO'S HOUSE: Egads! Another War Without a StrategyShaun Mullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14964214385216513188noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19217611.post-56767287837391999402007-12-18T12:10:00.000-05:002007-12-18T12:10:00.000-05:00from Kabul Press:Aid agencies advised the UN Secur...from Kabul Press:<BR/><B>Aid agencies </B>advised the UN Security Council that the international community’s assumption that Afghanistan can be made peaceful through a combination of <B>military assistance, donor-driven aid, and Western-style democracy fails </B>to attend to the history, society and culture of Afghanistan, a country which has witnessed failed foreign intervention time and again. There is an urgent need at this time to rethink current strategies in the interests of preventing the death of even more Afghans, avoiding large-scale destruction of infrastructure and livelihoods, and increasing chances that what goes on inside and around Afghanistan’s borders does not destabilize regional and global peace efforts.<BR/><BR/>"We trust the UN Security Council will use our concerns and ideas shared on behalf of ‘we the peoples’ to <B>promote human security rather than continue to act on behalf of many UN Member State governments who unfortunately but increasingly have a tendency in the current GWOT climate to promote national security agendas at all costs.”</B><BR/><BR/>http://kabulpress.org/English_letters27.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com