Afghanistan: The humanitarian crisis and U.S. response, testimony by international rescue committee to the senate foreign relations committee

Miliband appealed to members of the subcommittee to help usher an urgent change in US economic policy toward Afghanistan to avert what is becoming a “catastrophe-of-choice imposed on the Afghan people." He argues that there is a narrative that the U.S. must choose between helping the people of Afghanistan or helping the Taliban. Instead, Miliband says, there is a middle course: helping the Afghan people without embracing the new government.