"Post-Taliban Era" Of U.S. Policy On Afghanistan

"9·11" incident to break the myth of the U.S. homeland security, the United States not only suffered a great loss of personnel and property, the more important that made the American people suffered almost unprecedented, abnormal deep psychological impact. Therefore, the United States greatly excited, the public and the government regard this terrorist act as the war against the United States. President Bush swore to take full revenge on the people responsible for the terrorist attacks and the country that asylum al-Qaeda. The U.S. government soon concluded that al-Qaeda was responsible for the "9·11" incident. As a result they targeted bin Laden hiding in Afghanistan and the Taliban regime. However, the United States have not seized bin Laden even now, Taliban in Afghanistan has also comeback. What kind of policy on earth did the United States adopt that the vows have so far failed? This paper introduces this problem in a systematic way.According to the different focus of U.S. counter-terrorism strategy, this article divided the period since "9·11" incident into three stages, with one chapter to discuss each stage.Chapter one:policy focused on anti-terrorism toward Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, the United States quickly overthrew the Taliban regime by playing the "proxy war", with small cost of casualties. And continue to use this way to fully wipe out al-Qaeda and Taliban remnants. In the process of overthrowing the Taliban regime, the U.S. established a pro-US regime and dropped a certain amount of relief materials to the Afghan. But the U.S. government required other countries to provide the main financial assistance in post-war reconstruction of Afghanistan and was reluctant to anti-drug.Chapter two:policy toward Afghanistan "Under the strategic neglect". After the overthrow of the Taliban regime, U.S. shifted the strategy focused on Iraq soon. In this context, the Bush administration consolidated the Karzai regime in politics and implemented of "best effort" strategy on militarily. There was too much talk and not enough action in economic assistance. Also did not do much in drug control. But the administration made some efforts in the liberation of women, development of education and health services in Social reform.Chapter three:"Revised" policy on Afghanistan. With the serious deterioration of the situation in Afghanistan and the relative improvement of the situation in Iraq, the United States shifted the focus back to Afghanistan. In this context, the Obama administration "takes multi-leveraging measures to weaken opponents" politically, and "increases force massively, changes the strategy, and accelerates the training" militarily, Substantial increases in economic financial assistance and does pay more attention to the use of effective, also takes a more forceful measures in drug control.In the summary section, this paper does overall evaluation of U.S. policy on Afghanistan and discusses the future direction of the situation in Afghanistan.