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Document Friday: Afghanistan, “Heading Towards a Catastrophe” before 9/11? « UNREDACTED
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Secretary of State Colin Powell read a memo entitled “Preventing an Afghan Humanitarian Situation Crisis.” It warned that Afghanistan was “verge of a widespread and precipitous famine,” and estimated that 3.8 million Afghans—more than 6 percent of the population—would be affected by the food shortage. Powell initialed the memo and wrote, “Keep me informed.”
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- “Afghanistan’s worst drought in history.”
- Twenty years of civil war in Afghanistan—which was at that time intensifying.
- The “administrative incompetence of the Taliban.”
Afghanistan was “heading towards a catastrophe” due to several factors, including:
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Georgia to the rescue... again | FP Passport
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A big chunk of them will also come from Georgia, a non-NATO member with an ulterior motive:
But the rest of the troops mentioned are
either already deployed, or coming from a country whose desperate,
loose cannon leader is pretty much discredited internationally. From a
military perspective, Georgia's contribution is welcome news. But from
a
political perspective, it represents more that country's desperation to
join NATO than a grand victory for Obama's new strategy.
According to the Washington Post, NATO officials are counting on at least 900 troops from Georgia. Grunstein thinks it might be as high as 3,300.
How Egypt thwarts USAID | FP Passport
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It is the job of USAID to distribute a portion of that money to democracy promotion programs. A recent audit offers a depressing verdict on USAID's efforts: the impact of its programs was "unnoticeable" in improving Egypt's democratic environment. Of the programs for which USAID distributed funds, donors carried out only 65% of the activities promised and achieved only 52% of the planned results, based on predetermined metrics.
USDA's Rajiv Shah to be named USAID head | The Cable
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Senate
Foreign Relations chairman John Kerry promised swift proceedings for
Rajiv Shah, President Obama's impending nominee for administration of
the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
Daily brief: Obama reportedly considering 4 Afghanistan options | The AfPak Channel
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Three
of Obama's top advisers -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense
Secretary Robert Gates, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Adm. Mike
Mullen -- are reportedly coalescing around a proposal to send 30,000 or
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Obama is expected to
ask NATO allies to contribute 4,000 more troops to Afghanistan to "help
break the deadlock," though his request is set to be ignored, reports
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Matthew Yglesias » Effective Leadership
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And looking that over, it seems to me that a province-by-province study to “determine which regions are being managed effectively by local leaders and which require international help” would be a good idea right here in the USA. Someone can finally do something about, say, Mississippi. It persistently lags on human development indexes, its governor is dogged by corruption allegations, and election results simply break down along ethnic lines and re-enforce entrenched divisions.
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Stimson - Publications - A Foreign Affairs Budget for the Future
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"Our diplomatic leaders - be they in ambassadors' suites or on the State Department's seventh floor - must have the resources and political support needed to fully exercise their statutory responsibilities in leading American foreign policy."
- Defense Secretary Robert Gates, July 2008
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Increased diplomatic needs in Iraq, Afghanistan, and "the next" crisis area, as well as global challenges in finance, the environment, terrorism and other areas have not been supported by increased staffing. Those positions that do exist have vacancy rates approaching 15% at our Embasssies and Consulates abroad and at the State Department in Washington, DC. USAID's situation is even more dire. Today, significant portions of the nation's foreign affairs business simply are not accomplished. The work migrates by default to the military that does not have the necessary people and funding but neither sufficent experience or knowledge.
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United States Pledges $85 Million for the Benazir Income Support Program
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced today an American contribution of $85 million to the Government of Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto Income Support Program (BISP), that targets assistance to Pakistani women and families in need.
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The monthly lottery drawing, established in honor of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, provides cash loans of Rs. 300,000 ($3,600) for economically disadvantaged families to support income-generating entrepreneurship
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The U.S. Provides $103.5 Million in New Law Enforcement and Border Security Assistance
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pledged $103.5 million in U.S. support for the Government of Pakistan’s priority law enforcement and border security programs. This new commitment brings total support for these programs in 2009 to $147.2 million.
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Secretary Clinton offered $37.5 million in new assistance to the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Police and other law enforcement entities, including Levies from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
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The Saturday Profile - Back From the Suburbs to Run a Patch of Somalia - Biography - NYTimes.com
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Mr. Aden, 37, is part militia commander, part schoolteacher, part lawmaker, part engineer, part environmentalist, part king — a mind-boggling combination of roles for anyone to play, let alone for a guy who dresses (and talks) like a rapper and recently moved from Minnesota to Somalia in an effort to build a local government.
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With money channeled from fellow clansmen living in the United States and Europe, he has transformed Adado and its surroundings in central Somalia, which used to be haunted by bandits and warring Islamic factions, into an enclave of peace, with a functioning police force, scores of new businesses, new schools and new rules.
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The China Beat: Chinese Responses to Disaster: A View From the Qing
Chinese philanthropists leapt into action in the 1870s because by that point the beleaguered late-Qing government no longer had the resources to carry out the type of massive relief campaign that Confucian rhetoric and eighteenth-century precedent demande
BBC NEWS | Africa | Charity rejects US food aid gift
It said wheat donated by the US government and distributed by charities introduced low prices that local farmers are unable to compete with.
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