Thanks Khaled, I was gonna make a point about the Taliban "invading" Afghanistan, but you make it so much better.
When I was early in my Jr. College career, I remember reading about the Soviet invasion and the Taliban resistance to those damn godless commies and admiring the Taliban very much for their devoted and pious ways - sleeping in caves and praying over their bullets, a mountain tribal people resisting helicopter gunships. I was on their side then and it's been real hard to shift and see them as the enemy now. I do think they should have left those Buddhist statues alone. Bad PR move! John On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:34 AM, khaledsa <[email protected]> wrote: > [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/ > 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/
