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Quoted: Military-led aid projects doomed to fail in Afghanistan


January 28, 2011
By The IRC
Photo: Peter Biro/IRC

“Military-led projects erode established humanitarian principles of impartiality and independence, fail to win hearts and minds and — we now know — are ineffective.”

- Michael Kocher, the IRC's vice president of international programs, commenting on a Washington Post story in a January 10 letter to the editor.
 

 

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