Nebor, you've stayed in that country for too long. They need to bring you back home. This is not your problem. Don't care too much or you will hate yourself for leaving. Just do your job and move on. You cannot impose your morals on them.
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As again I think Dari plays the wrong song. Even if the cultural gap between Nebor and the Average Afghan is vast, the fact is and remains, the average Afghan does not like the the brutality and religious righteous of Taliban any more than we do.
As the American people prefer to see the Afghan people as ignorant cartoons of backward pagans when they are in fact human beings very much like us. And with the same goals of as everyone else, in better lives for themselves and their children.
As its really us in America who are the somewhat ignorant pagans who have zero understanding of what the Afghan people have been through. Afghanistan has not had a stable or popular government since 1937, and during most of that time, has been ruled by a succession of brutal war lords. Then the Russians came in 1980, and in their brutality and lust for rule, close to 20% of the Afghan people died. Then Uncle Sammy armed the Afghan terrorists, being careful to first rename them freedom fighters, and soon Uncle Sammy succeeded in his only mission in tweaking the nose of the Russian bear. And giving the USSR their own version of the Vietnam.
Once the Russians went home, Uncle Sammy abandoned the Afghan people like a no longer useful tool, as Afghanistan descended into a ten year civil war as war lord fought war lord for turf and the drug trade. And in that sense, as rotten and horrible as the Taliban were, they were still better than the anarchy and thuggery of war lords and drug traffickers.
But still, it was no skin off the US butt, we still dealt with Taliban government even if we didn't recognize the legitimacy of their idiotic government.
But that is when the shit hit the fan, as Ossama Bin Laden, one of our former freedom fighters, borrowed the soil of Afghanistan and used it to launch 911. As Uncle Sammy deeply stung came into Afghanistan guns blazing in an act of revenge. As Donald Rumsfeld devised military tactics worthy of Hannibal and Rommel, but forgot one little minor detail. Its absolutely brilliant to have a anvil and pincher movement, as the pincher claw squeezes the enemy against an anvil, but ole Dumsfeld forgot to have an anvil waiting at Tora Bora. As the whole lot escaped into Pakistan and parts beyond.
Meanwhile for the Afghan people it was back to the days of anarchy and civil war, drug lords, thugs, war lords, and every bit as bad as even the worse time since 1937. And in the subsequent 11 years its gotten even worse. At least Al-Quida had the option to flee or stay, but not so the Taliban whose home it was. As the Taliban was soon back with the cry of throw the western devils out. As The USA engaged in mission creep. As the goal became to kill every member of the Taliban, no matter how many innocent Afghan civilians they had to kill in the process. And then we wonder why the Taliban treats us with the same mercy and humanity we give in return.
And then when we ask for help of the Afghan civilian, we don't bother to protect them. As for the puppet Afghan government we set up in the name of democracy, they are by in large the very drug dealers, war lords, thugs, that have always victimized the Afghan people.
But don't take my word for it, listen to Leon Pinhead, if we just kill a few more Taliban, there will finally be light at the end of the Tunnel.
And come 2014 or when ever we will still be saying that, then we will pull a new Nixon, declare peace with honor, sail home saying yippee we won, leaving behind another monument to American policy stupidity. And maybe then, like Vietnam, The Afghan people will finally get their chance to heal, and start to slowly modernize. Actally Afghanistan can have a bright future, lots of newly discovered mineral wealth, and its a prime route for a pipeline for natural gas between Iran and India
Sorry to be a wet blanket here, but if you are happy with our American foreign policy results, there is something seriously wrong with your brain.
Sure we can do far better, but if we keep voting for idiot politicians who tell us we can do it cheap cheap and cheaper. Its time to US wise up. In a military occupation, you either go big or we are better off staying at home.