Clearly a job for the UN blue-helmets. It think the international
community as a whole must take the blame for the mess there.
Karl Marx fucked his maid servant and gave birth to Communism.
Abraham fucked his maid servant and gave birth to Islam.
thus, Communism and Islam are bastard Ideologies.
--- On Sun, 3/21/10, tartbrain <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Afghani Jihadist War Heroes -- Was She Shot Him 6
Times
Date: Sunday, March 21, 2010, 11:15 AM
A summary of what was left in Afghanistan after the Islamic Jihadists defeated
the Soviets, and arguably ended the Cold War and prevented Soviet takeover of
Saudi oil fields and the establishment of long imperialist goals of extending
their empire to the Indian Ocean.
>From Wiki on the aftermath of the Afghan Soviet war:
Estimates of the Afghan deaths vary from 100,000[78] to 1 million.[79] 5
million Afghans fled to Pakistan and Iran, 1/3 of the prewar population of the
country. Another 2 million Afghans were displaced within the country. In the
1980s, half of all refugees in the world were Afghan.[80]
Along with fatalities were 1.2 million Afghans disabled (mujahideen, government
soldiers and noncombatants) and 3 million maimed or wounded (primarily
noncombatants) .[81]
Irrigation systems, crucial to agriculture in Afghanistan' s arid climate, were
destroyed by aerial bombing and strafing by Soviet or government forces. In the
worst year of the war, 1985, well over half of all the farmers who remained in
Afghanistan had their fields bombed, and over one quarter had their irrigation
systems destroyed and their livestock shot by Soviet or government troops,
according to a survey conducted by Swedish relief experts [80]
The population of Afghanistan' s second largest city, Kandahar, was reduced
from 200,000 before the war to no more than 25,000 inhabitants, following a
months-long campaign of carpet bombing and bulldozing by the Soviets and Afghan
communist soldiers in 1987.[82] Land mines had killed 25,000 Afghans during the
war and another 10-15 million land mines, most planted by Soviet and government
forces, were left scattered throughout the countryside. [83]
A great deal of damage was done to the civilian children population by land
mines. A 2005 report estimated 3-4% of the Afghan population were disabled due
to Soviet and government land mines. In the city of Quetta, a survey of refugee
women and children taken shortly after the Soviet withdrawal found over 80% of
the children refugees unregistered and child mortality at 31%. Of children who
survived, 67% were severely malnourished, with malnutrition increasing with
age.[84]
Critics of Soviet and Afghan government forces describe their effect on Afghan
culture as working in three stages: first, the center of customary Afghan
culture, Islam, was pushed aside; second, Soviet patterns of life, especially
amongst the young, were imported; third, shared Afghan cultural characteristics
were destroyed by the emphasis on so-called nationalities, with the outcome
that the country was split into different ethnic groups, with no language,
religion, or culture in common.[85]
The Geneva Accords of 1988, which ultimately led to the withdrawal of the
Soviet forces in early 1989, left the Afghan government in ruins. The accords
had failed to address adequately the issue of the post-occupation period and
the future governance of Afghanistan. The assumption among most Western
diplomats was that the Soviet-backed government in Kabul would soon collapse;
however, this was not to happen for another three years. During this time the
Interim Islamic Government of Afghanistan (IIGA) was established in exile. The
exclusion of key groups such as refugees and Shias, combined with major
disagreements between the different mujaheddin factions, meant that the IIGA
never succeeded in acting as a functional government.[ 86]
Before the war, Afghanistan was already one of the world's poorest nations. The
prolonged conflict left Afghanistan ranked 170 out of 174 in the UNDP's Human
Development Index, making Afghanistan one of the least developed countries in
the world.[87]
Once the Soviets withdrew, US interest in Afghanistan ceased. The US decided
not to help with reconstruction of the country and instead they handed over the
interests of the country to US allies, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Pakistan
quickly took advantage of this opportunity and forged relations with warlords
and later the Taliban, to secure trade interests and routes. From wiping out
the country's trees through logging practices, which has destroyed all but 2%
of forest cover country-wide, to substantial uprooting of wild pistachio trees
for the exportation of their roots for therapeutic uses, to opium agriculture,
the past ten years have caused much ecological and agrarian destruction. [88]
Captain Tarlan Eyvazov, a soldier in the Soviet forces during the war, stated
that the Afghan children's future is destined for war. Eyvazov said, "Children
born in Afghanistan at the start of the war... have been brought up in war
conditions, this is their way of life." Eyvazov's theory was later strengthened
when the Taliban movement developed and formed from orphans or refugee children
who were forced by the Soviets to flee their homes and relocate their lives in
Pakistan. The swift rise to power, from the young Taliban in 1994, was the
result of the disorder and civil war that had warlords running wild because of
the complete breakdown of law and order in Afghanistan after the departure of
the Soviets.[89]
