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On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Sarad AV wrote:
> Firstly,they cannot be exterminated.There is no proof of
> identity as we may have in our countries and no body will ask
> for it either,since most don't have one. The Taliban would
> have cut their beard and hair and mixed up with civilian
> population,while troops can go searching for orthodox
> civilians with a taliban look,making it hard to hunt them
> down.Once/if the international troops leave afghan,there are
> over hundred factions,who will keep fighting among themselves
> for 'land' and the taliban will be back.
There have always been a hundred factions quarreling over land
in Afganistan. The level of violence was tolerable to Afghans
and outsiders. What went wrong with the Taliban is that one
faction, with outside aid from international islamicists,
managed to actually get most of the land.
US policy was to restore the status quo ante in Afghanistan,
put things back the way they were before the Soviet invasion.
It seems to have succeeded well enough, and there is no reason
to suppose it will be any less stable than it was. The future
of Afghanistan will probably be no less violent than it was
before the Soviet invasion, but no more violent that it was
before the Soviet invasion.
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James A. Donald
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