Asad Koraganie 2 hours ago · Are we sure of these or simply blowing hot air? I wish we could be a bit more responsible for what we say. But, I think that has not yet become part of our culture. A long time ago, one of the students of Kabul University (1960s) said in a speech: “Shotor dozdi ba khamkham namisha” (You cannot steal a Camel and not be noticed.) Is it possible to extract ores from various mines without being noticed? Is mining the same as taking or stealing a piece of candy? I am sure you are angry at me now, but as Hazara, I would want you to be better than this. Unsubstantiated claims like this bring you down to the level of uneducated street peddlers. It is up to you. I was against the Iraq war from the start. I argued vehemently against it, but I am not a government official and my opposition was to make a point with my friends and coworkers. Those co-workers tell me that they were wrong then. Knowing that Saddam who was a thug himself had kept the people of Iraq under his steel claws, his removal would open the old bloody wounds. The Neocons, which included Zalmai Khalilzad in its lower ranks, wanted to “remake the Middle-East in their own image.” They wanted to export Democracy and put Iran in the mouth the vice, while freeing Israel from a very clear and permanent threat. Their problem was not knowing the history and human geography of the area. We saw the outcome. The intervention in Afghanistan was the only foreign policy act of George W. Bush that I as a civilian fully supported and continue to support. It is because of that supposed invasion that you are on the internet today, we have all these institutes of higher learning, and we are a strong intellectual force in Kabul and Afghanistan. Let us leave the Anti-Americanism to Iranians and the Iranian fed Mullahs with their Al-Qaeda supporters. The people of Afghanistan has benefited much more than the little they have lost.
Posted on: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 02:36:39 +0000
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