This, Mr President, is how your government will “build a nation”
The story, in short:
A consultancy in London provided this nation-building plan to the Pentagon. Wonderfully it ended up online (still available, here).
A quick visual of the plan to build a new nation of Afghanistan…
STEP 1: Look for support! Yes, this is your “Popular Support”
Step 2: Ah, but these strange A-rab folk are a bit different to us, yes? What about their “Conditions, Beliefs & Structures”? Better shove them in.
Step 3: But ugh, the insurgents! And all those poppy fields. Better shove them in ‘n’ all…
Step 4: Right, there might economists in the room. Mention infrastructure and the economy and stuff…
Step 5: Not to mention the ‘public sector workers’. Fit them in somewhere…
Step 6: And the Brits, don’t forget them. You know, the ‘Coalition’, the other governments. Include the ‘Coalition’. Still following?
Step 7: Dammit, there’s still a gap left. Make something up…
Step 8: Add some colour. That’s better. But actually, what happens when all these things link together? Don’t we need to…
Step 9: …ah yes, that’s better. Everyone reading from the same hymn sheet now? Ladies and Gentlemen, the Development of Afghanistan Stability!
YES.
This will definitely work.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Hat-tip: Chris Coyne.
Tags: Afghanistan, nation building, neo Cons, Tony Blair