After 10 years of war in Afghanistan, US and Nato partners stay faraway from reaching their objectives, an chief of allies forces has said.
Stanley McChrystal a Retired Army General said the US started the fight with a "terrifyingly basic" view and still not have the information to get a winning end.
"Operation Enduring Freedom" meant to track down Osama Bin Laden after 9/11 and devastate the Taliban. The UN states in excess of 10,000 common people have killed in the previous five years alone.
More than 2,500 worldwide soldiers have been died – most of them American.
The fight has already exceeded Vietnam to become the lengthy war in American history.
Talking at the Council on Foreign Relations, Gen McChrystal, who controlled the allies forces in 2009-10 before being enforced to quit after a magazine interview, said the US and Nato partners were "a little better than" half way to acquiring their military objectives.
The harder assignment would be to establish a legal government that common Afghans could consider in and that would balance the authority of the Taliban, he said.
"We didn't familiar enough and we still don't know enough," he said. "The majority of us - including me - had a very superficial consideration of the circumstances and history, and we had a shockingly simplistic analysis of recent history, the last 50 years," he said.
He further said that while the option to involve in Afghanistan may have been seen as the US acting on its right to protect itself after 9/11, the choice to attack Iraq two years later had both "changed the Muslim world's view of America's effort" and preoccupied some military resources that could have been put to good use in Afghanistan.
Gen McChrystal's remarks come as a partner of aid groups said in spite billions of dollars in aid, developments were only inconsistent.
The Acbar group said health and education area especially remained in awful need of development.
The Western authorities accept that parts of the country will stay brutal after 2014 when Nato surrenders its fighting role. Without a peace agreement with the Taliban, he says, few actually expect the fighting to be taken to an end.
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Some $57bn (£37bn) of aid has been consumed over the previous ten years, according to the NGO who form part of the Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief, but, while some achievements have been done, the expenditure has not always decoded into actual developments for several Afghans.
For example, now 80% of Afghans have approached to health facilities, compared to only 9% in 2001, according to data from the Public Health Ministry.
But several of the newly opened clinics are frequently closed or badly equipped.
"Behind the title numbers there lies an image of people endeavoring to reach clinics which without medicines or doctors, and school children attempting to educate without textbooks or classrooms," said Acbar director Anne Garella.
The country is also facing its severe famine for a decade, with the World Food Program saying it expects that 2.6 million people will require aid.
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Rights group Amnesty International previous this weeks appreciated development in latest human rights laws, the availability of education and health facilities and declined prejudice against women, but said in some areas - including justice and policing, security and disarticulation- the condition had remained sluggish, or even got worsen.
"The Afghan government and its companions can't carry on to defend their so poor performance by saying that things are improved than during the 1990s," said Sam Zarifi, Amnesty's Asia Pacific director.
