I thought the Kandahar green belt stuff was "help this third-world country develop with the promise of the green revolution" showplace stuff from the west, not the organic state of Afghanistan overall in the 1960s, though. It was certainly otherwise far better back then, but my perception from people from Kandahar (who admittedly weren't really experts; expats who had left in the 1980s) was that it was sort of like Epcot Center or something which had fallen into disrepair.)
