From Tumblr
Though I admittedly love it for the girls, Tumblr has great potential as a social network. This post from The Atlantic magazine obviously responds to that side of it.
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theatlantic: Here’s the Best Thing the U.S. Has Done in Afghanistan
While the U.S. military can win wars with overwhelming firepower, the conventional wisdom is that the U.S. lacks effective civilian tools to win the peace. Afghanistan’s public health care system provides a powerful counterpoint: financed largely by American foreign aid, it has produced the most rapid increase in life expectancy observed anywhere on the planet. What went right? And why do American auditors and Congressional overseers suddenly want to pull the plug?
In late 2011, the U.S. Agency for International Development announced...the release of the 2010 Afghanistan Mortality Survey... from 2004 to 2010, life expectancy had risen from just 42 years - the second lowest rate in the world -- to 62 years, driven by a sharp decline in child mortality... 100,000 Afghan children per year who previously would have died now don’t. Read more. [Image: Mohammad Ismail/Reuters]
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Yep, amazing! I'd insist, though, that our impact is even broader: Afghan women have rights and possibilities they never had before! Somehow, in the military transition, that progress MUST be safeguarded.
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theatlantic: Here’s the Best Thing the U.S. Has Done in Afghanistan
While the U.S. military can win wars with overwhelming firepower, the conventional wisdom is that the U.S. lacks effective civilian tools to win the peace. Afghanistan’s public health care system provides a powerful counterpoint: financed largely by American foreign aid, it has produced the most rapid increase in life expectancy observed anywhere on the planet. What went right? And why do American auditors and Congressional overseers suddenly want to pull the plug?
In late 2011, the U.S. Agency for International Development announced...the release of the 2010 Afghanistan Mortality Survey... from 2004 to 2010, life expectancy had risen from just 42 years - the second lowest rate in the world -- to 62 years, driven by a sharp decline in child mortality... 100,000 Afghan children per year who previously would have died now don’t. Read more. [Image: Mohammad Ismail/Reuters]
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Yep, amazing! I'd insist, though, that our impact is even broader: Afghan women have rights and possibilities they never had before! Somehow, in the military transition, that progress MUST be safeguarded.