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Implementing "Smart Power" in Afghanistan Poses Challenge for U.S.

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Uploaded by on Sep 16, 2009

Analysts and policy makers call it "smart power" -- a seamless blend of investment, good deeds and military force that is intended to win friends while targeting enemies in war. In 2007, the U.S. Defense Department officially embraced this philosophy. But on the ground in Afghanistan, U.S. forces are finding it difficult to be humanitarians and builders as well as soldiers. David Axe and Jason Reich report for Voice of America.

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  • get out of our country,, who are you controle our country or speaking about our country,no country has the right to implent its rules on another,and to play with the feelings of its peolpe,if there was fight or no democracy in the rulling period of taliban so it was Afghanistan's internal issue what has Nato and its allies had with it... please i say leave this country to govern and solve its issues itself,we dont need ur cherity but dont interfere in Afghanistan,it is my request to pakistan etc

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