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Om hoog te mik, is nie noodwendig 'n slegte strategie nie.Die argument is dat beskeie doelwitte selfs minder sal oplewer. Maar soms kan die lat onbereikbaar hoog wees.Republikein het reeds met haar aanstelling as voorsitter van die nuwe raad vir die werwing van beleggings, die NIPDB, geskryf me. Nangula Uaandja se taak is behoorlik vir haar uitgeknip.Tydens haar voorlegging van die raad se strategiese plan aan die staatshoof, het pres. Hage Geingob gesê die land moet die NIPDB tyd gun om sy mandaat uit te voer.Die realiteit is egter dat tyd nie aan Namibië se kant is nie. Tyd loop uit. En vinnig.Boonop maak die Covid-19-pandemie die vaarwaters van internasionale sake en finansiering meer onvoorspelbaar as ooit. As Namibië sy beeld as 'n voorkeurbeleggingseindpunt wil herstel, moet dit gou geskied. Anders gaan geskiedenis ons agterlaat; en voorspoed, welvaart vir almal en uiteindelik wet en orde kan soos mis voor die son verdwyn.Ja, kom ons gee kans. Bygesê is dit algemeen dat oor poste en vergoeding gekibbel word sodra hervorming plaasvind; soos ook by die Inkomste-agentskap (NamRA).Verskeie take moet nietemin gou afgehandel word. Daaronder tel die hersiening van beleid en wetgewing, soos die bemagtigingsplan NEEEF. Vir beleggers is sien, gló. Nie hoor nie. Sien.Die werwing van meer as N$10 miljard se beleggings binne twee jaar is 'n hoë teiken. En nuwe projekte moet volhoubaar werk en welvaart skep. Tyd vir lugkastele en wit olifante is daar nie.Namibiërs, en die wêreld, wag. En ons kyk. So sê ander18 August 2021 The Afghanistan disaster Of all the decisions that produced the chaos in Afghanistan, there is one that explains how things went so bad so quickly.When Mr. Biden began pulling out U.S. advisers to the Afghan army, he also removed U.S. military flight crews and aircraft. He pulled out the maintenance contractors who kept the tiny Afghan Air Force aloft. And he did so at the height of the summer fighting season.Demoralized units broke and ran to escape the fate of colleagues executed by the Taliban. The Taliban even paid some of them to quit.All of this underscores the argument for staying the course until the Afghan army could stand up to the Taliban on its own. But that argument ignores Afghanistan's history of resisting and defeating outside forces.The Taliban could say they were upholding Afghan history. The Afghan army could not. Because of that difference in morale, the Afghan army was never going to be strong enough to stand on its own.During America's 20-year, $2 trillion run in Afghanistan, U.S. aid improved life for Afghans living outside the control of conservative village elders, notably providing education and opportunity to women. But it also was subject to enormous waste and theft. Any benefit is now likely lost.At some point, an American president was going to have to cut off life support to the Afghan government, leaving its fate up to the Afghans themselves. Mr. Biden opted to be the one, and he did it incompetently.Mr. Biden will pay the political price at home, and U.S. credibility will be diminished abroad.• THE POST AND COURIER

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