[Bodvar] > but I just wonder how this proud and independent > people who have defeated all invaders from Alexander onwards let the > Taleban have their way.
[Khaled] Bodvar sorry for the late reply, i was gone for a couple of days. I read your question last night and the only comparison that I can think of is the Mafia in Sicily. I guess it would be a lot easier for the Sicilians to repel an invading army than to get rid of their local Mafia. the Taleban are First of all Afghani, they know the lay of the land, the language and the culture. they don't drop bombs form drones on weddings, and they are well financed and well paid. Look at the US civil war, it was a very costly affair, all over ideology. it was probably easier to get rid of the British than to fight the civil war. The taliban are like that. They start with the poor outlying villages. Get it and make a few heads roll. They do find some sympathizer, remember this a patriarchal society after all, especially in rural village. they take the sympathizer under their wing, pay them well and every time a resistance pops up, they make a head roll. Now they have control. the ugliness will feed on itself, just like foot binding in china of female circumcision is east Africa ( across religious and national lines), such things become acceptable. I am always amazed at a mother who would force her daughter to go through such a thing. Did she herself forget the trauma she went thought? But as someone said to me once, you want peace in that part of the world ( we were talking about the Balkans then), you have to kill all the grandmothers. It took me a while to realize that he was talking about the fact that in order to have a fresh start, you have to stop the grudges and bad habits from being passed along Khaled ____________________________________________________________ Hotel Hotel pics, info and virtual tours. Click here to book a hotel online. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=5V3YJoUXQMF3aXKvrtoJngAAJ1BoN5MIA846iJgpKACKCvEMAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATRAAAAAA= Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
