What are the top ten failed states of the past year?
Annalee Newitz — Every year, Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace do a survey of "failed states," nations whose citizens they judge to be in the most dire circumstances in the world — largely because of government mismanagement and outright abuse.
The methods they use to pick the failed states is fascinating, though the biggest state fails may not surprise you.
Here are the states who ranked the highest in the Failed States Index, with their scores:
Guess what boys and girls. The US has been nation building in....Haiti...Afghanistan...Iraq. We've been sending aid like a parent sends money to a spoiled college attending alcoholic male to...Ivory Coast, Central African Republic, Zimbabwe, SUdan, Chad, Somalia and Congo.1 Somalia 113.4
2 Chad 110.3
3 Sudan 108.7
4 Dem. Rep. of Congo 108.2
5 Haiti 108.0
6 Zimbabwe 107.9
7 Afghanistan 107.5
8 Central African Republic 105.0
9 Iraq 104.8
10 Ivory Coast 102.8
Long story short. Nation building doesn't work.
Which means that counter insurgency hasn't worked.
Which means that we're wasting tax money.
Which means that we aren't affecting the lives of people that we're supposedly trying to help.
Which means that we're wasting our time.
Its time to nation build in the US...AMERICA FIRST.
only one statement comes to mind Sol
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wow...thanks buddy. i thought just me and the people i associate with felt this way. glad to know you're with me..
ReplyDeleteOh how I wish we could go back to the days of smashing a country and rebuilding from the ground up, Germany and Japan seem to have done alright in the end.
ReplyDeleteBut then it didn't work out so well in Korea or 'Nam did it?
Let's not fool ourselves, western intervention will never turn these places into hot new tourist spots overnight, but some can be done in the long run. The length of time necessary though may be too long for most people to stomach though. How long were the British in Northern Ireland for? - 30 odd years. On the far end of the spectrum, it took British Paras a couple of months to end a 2 decade long civil war in Sierra Leone, they just didn't bother with all the touchy feely nation crap afterwards.
We don't need to turn Afghan into little America to secure it enough for Western safety, but all the crap about ending the drugs trade and equal rights for women was beyond our abilities. The mission should have stayed focused and the Taliban should have been allowed back partly,but the politics of nation building got in the way. Shame.
you just hit on the dirty little seccret Grim.
ReplyDeletethe anti-terrorism war in Afghanistan has been won.
it was won a long time ago. the counter insurgency war continues...and thats a war we can't win.
i dont think the anti-terror war in afghanistan has been won, if the insurgency overthrows teh government after we leave there will be terror camps once again. i am not certain our strategy is working or worth it, but i am not sure leaving outright is good either. maybe just pulling back to fortified bases so the air force and CIA can bomb the crap out of people may do just as good in an anti-terror role.
ReplyDeleteAQ has been all but eradicated in Afghanistan.
ReplyDeletewe're in the middle of civil war ... thats the cold hard facts of it and we're backing a mad man while we're doing it.
even if we pull out and it goes to hell then a sea base off the coast along with a couple of special forces bases in the country will be good enough
point remains. we're not doing anti-terrorism work now. we're nation building.
time to leave.
America first.
i would agree with the sea basing concept with special ops but the CIA drone attacks in pakistan have been REALLY effective, where would you base them out of? the predator doesnt have the kind of range to fly from other bases and isnt carrier capable.
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ReplyDeleteTen years ago Afghanistan was at the bottom of that list
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