And people are still puzzled as to why some in Islamic countries hate the US and Americans.
--- In [email protected], Jason <jedi_sp...@...> wrote: > > > 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 <[email protected]> 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] > > > >
