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This Foreign Policy article by James Stavridis puts the last 14 years of NATO operations in Afghanistan into some perspective. Life expectancy has gone up from 47 years to 62, the highest gain in a decade ever recorded by the United Nations. Infant and maternal mortality have plummeted, and access to health care has climbed from 10 percent under the Taliban to 65 percent today. Before the U.S. invasion, there were fewer than 1 million boys in school; today there are close to 7 million children in school — and 40 percent of them are girls. Literacy rates are rising rapidly as a result, and today young Afghans are studying abroad in universities and graduate schools as well as in their own country. A recent Asia Foundation poll (conducted for 10 years and exhaustively executed across the country) finds over 50 percent of Afghans now believe things are going in the right direction in their country, that the recent election was free and fair, and that things will improve under the new Ghani-Abdullah team.* And nearly 90 percent of the population respects the army and over 70 percent respect the police. foreignpolicy/2015/01/05/all-is-not-lost-in-afghanistan/

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