Research Paper on:
Failure of Afghanistan's Humanitarian Aid

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seems that the Western world is 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. Sometimes, however, our efforts to provide relief to countries which we perceive of as being in great need does more harm from a global perspective than it  does good. We could, in fact, make this contention in Afghanistan. While there are indeed people living in sub-human conditions 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.  The recent events which have flung the United States into an all-out war with Afghanistan have also served to make us more aware of a country and  a people who, just a couple of months ago, were barely distinguishable in the eyes of many. The problems which have become apparent in Afghanistan are, however, problems which  have been in existence for quite some time. Many of these problems are, in fact, geographic in nature. They are rooted in the division of one people and