Report: Without resources, Afghanistan on 'road to hell'

[Khephra]

COX NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON - A report on Afghanistan released Tuesday is critical of the resources and attention devoted to the country's reconstruction and stability and warns that it could be "on a road to hell" if the international community does not act.

The policy brief, issued by CARE International and the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, said donors have provided less than half the country's annual reconstruction needs and have pledged less than 25 percent of what Afghanistan needs for the next four years.

"Much of the country remains a tinderbox, with reconstruction all but stalled, and ordinary Afghans wondering if reality will ever match the rhetoric," the report said.

It also cited an increase since September 2002 in armed attacks on members of the assistance community from one a month to an average of one every two days. Among its recommendations was an expansion of the International Security Assistance Force beyond its base of operations in Kabul, the capital.

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[saigon68]

1. I'm sure the Mayor of Kabul

will put the country back together, after all he is our chosen LAPDOG to do this job.

[noonwitch]

2. I guess we only rebuild oil-producing companies after we bomb them

Afghanistan is a much poorer country than Iraq, and Halliburton still hasn't figured out where the pipeline is going to go, so any rebuilding might just get in their way.

So, no "carpet of gold" for them, they got the bombs instead.

[UpInArms]

3. Afghanistan was going to

be the place where Enron ran its pipeline -

oops!