Well, the Marshall Plan was highly effective in rebuilding Europe and Japan after WWII. And once again, this isn't like Kosovo and FRY, where there were many tempting targets for economic assimilation into the West - there isn't much in Afghanistan to venture the Soros' of the world - Marshall-Plan type programs probably work best when a country is completely destitute, a description that fits Afghanistan to a "T".
Marshall-Plan type programs probably work best when a country is completely destitute, a description that fits Afghanistan to a "T".
How can you possibly say that, when the Marshal Plan targeted some of the most industrially-developed countries on earth at the time? Besides, most of the Marshal Plan was a political "denazification" plan, not the the physical rebuilding that most mistake it for. The Euros rebuilt their own continent for the most part after the war.
This wonderful new "Marshal plan" for Afghanistan will in the main go to bribe politicians and to pay high-priced American consultants. That has been the story of our aid to foreign countries and I have seen little to convince me that anything has changed.