Nation Building in Afghanistan Not Working

A member of a forensic accounting team who spent the past year in Afghanistan providing analysis on where the money spent on Afghanistan has gone wrote an opinion piece for the Chicago Tribune.  Mark Doyle says that "Implementing a nation-building plan in a country that is unprepared, unwilling and unable to accept the fundamental components of a democratic state is an impossible mission.  It is not worth one more American life or taxpayer dollar".  His job in Afghanistan was to " . . . determine how much of the money committed to reconstruction projects was supporting counterinsurgency strategies".  He states that Afghanistan does not have the right conditions to make nation-building work and that the society and government is too corrupt.  Doyle's advise to us?  It is time to leave Afghanistan.  Read his article entitled "Why we need to get out of Afghanistan - now", Chicago Tribune Opinion, February 24, 2012.