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An 11 page overview of the ancillary impacts of humanitarian aid in Afghanistan. This paper contends that while the objective of relief efforts in Afghanistan have been to improve the sub-human conditions and famine which many Afghanis have to endure this effort has resulted in more negative impacts than positive. In reality, very little of our aid gets through to the needy and what does is often received with suspicion and hatred. Equally concerning is the constant infusion of Western ideologies and philosophies on Afghani traditional culture. Bibliography lists 21 sources.
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constantly on ready in order to jump into any situation with the offer of humanitarian relief. This has most certainly been the case in Afghanistan. The first principle
of humanitarian aid is to do no harm, "primum non no cere". Sometimes, however, our efforts to provide relief to countries which we perceive of as being in great
need does more harm from both a global perspective and a cultural perspective than it does good. We could, in fact, make this contention in Afghanistan.
While there are indeed people living in sub-human conditions in Afghanistan and even starving to death in some instances, very little of our aid
gets through to the needy and what does is often received with suspicion and hatred. It could be contended, in fact, that we could better meet the needs of
humanity on a larger scale if we simply kept the millions of dollars we are spending in Afghanistan right here in our own country. Although the U.S. has historically
been one of the largest contributors of humanitarian aid to this country, however, we are only one within a network of contributions. The reasons for the failure of the
intervention is, in fact, related to the interrelationships of these contributors and the greed and corruption which exists in Afghanistan today. An added
consideration in the humanitarian relief effort is the impact to the Afghani culture itself which this effort wields. What has occurred there is really not that different from what
has occurred in other areas of the world. Afghani traditional culture, like those elsewhere in lesser developed regions of the world, have been the target of aggressive individuals with
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