The administration is signaling a new strategy for Afghanistan: “economic development and governance”.  On the front page of the Washington Post last week, President Obama’s national security adviser, James L. Jones, told Bob Woodward:

“The piece of the strategy that has to work in the next year is economic development. If that is not done right, there are not enough troops in the world to succeed.”

This is an appealing statement.  But does it make any sense?

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