Saturday, April 6, 2013

L.A. Times - Asia: U.S. reconstruction effort in Afghan provinces is unfinished work

L.A. Times - Asia
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thumbnail U.S. reconstruction effort in Afghan provinces is unfinished work
Apr 7th 2013, 02:46

As an 11-year effort winds down, U.S. provincial reconstruction teams, or PRTs, have made gains but have also left infrastructure that is incomplete, unsustainable or incompatible with local needs.

CHARIKAR, Afghanistan — At the doorstep of the U.S.-funded schoolhouse in this mountain-fringed northern town, Ghulam Nabi crouched in the mud and scooped up two rocks. He needed them, the school engineer explained, to scare off the building's only regular occupant: a stray dog.

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