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It is not mere burnings of the Koran by American servicemen which inflame ordinary Afghans, as much as greased cartridges did not really spark the Indian Liberation war of 1857.
The reasons and causes of current Afghan angst go much deeper, obviously.
Eric Margolis the Canadian journalist suggests prickly over sensitive Pashtuns who have an ancient tribal code of honor as some kind of explanation for the current protests in Afghanistan, and the occasional fragging.
Fragging happens in ALL armies. It happened in Vietnam during 1968--75, especially, when dissatisfaction with the war by American servicemen turned to internal indiscipline problems, in far greater numbers then the current ones by Afghans.
It happened on a huge scale in the Soviet military between 1941-45, in reverse...where literally millions of Soviet soldiers were killed by NKVD officers for disobeying orders, or retreating in the face of the enemy.
In the annals of military history there is nothing extraordinary about what Afghan soldiers do to their Western trainers every now and then given the 11 year duration of the conflict, the nature of Afghan society, and the nature of the foreign occupation of Afghanistan.
Clearly a certain number of Afghans are not happy.
But mean, uncharitable spurious explanations from the Western Jewish media will not do.
Pashtuns have been displaced as the dominant group in the country, even though they represent 40-55% of the population, and have ruled it for over 1000 years. Tajiks, and Uzbek minorities, armed and trained by NATO roam freely in Pashtun areas, providing backup help for the USA/NATO occupation.
The law and order situation in the country is very poor, and many warlords do not recognize the authority of Kabul.
The country after 11 years of bad American occupation is still failed state number 9 from the bottom.
The CIA which drives American policy in the country has opted for narco- Mafia figures, as the main base for support for their policies and rule in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan under CIA/Pentagon occupation has become a huge heroin plantation harvesting the opium for sale in the world markets, and the profits laundered in banks in London and New York.
Food security, as the post below suggests, is a major problem. Hunger is wide scale and prevalent. This simple basic human need is very much lacking in war torn Afghanistan, after 11 years of foreign occupation.
Above all American to put it mildly rules Afghanistan in sheer bad faith......combined with lies, deception, racist sneering, the attack on wedding parties, funerals, peaceful assemblies, civilians at home, and even children just playing out in the open, or collecting fire wood.
This fact may be because of simple base racism
or the prevalence of Christian Fundamentalism within the ranks of the armed forces and Intelligence
..........or just bad attitude problems of the very rich privileged nation with EVERYTHING, AND MORE........having to deal with people who live in the fourth world with absolutely nothing but their mud huts, and basic existence.
In materialist Jewish led America Afghans must seem no better then animals-----from the senior officers with Ivy League education, to redneck private Bubba with his pickup from the Deep South.
Afghans must struggle to liberate their country.
Afghans must fight to liberate their country.
A Tajik, Uzbek, or Hazara under American occupation is not better off than he was under Taliban rule.
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Thanks to the ruthless decade-long war, children in Afghanistan suffer one of the highest levels of chronic malnutrition in the world, according to a report released Monday by the World Bank and the government.
More than half of Afghan children under the age of five go hungry, the report said, despite billions of dollars in aid that has come into the country over the years.
One of the reasons the aid hasn’t helped is because much of it is wasted or goes through the hands of corrupt Afghan officials. Another reason, mentioned by the report, is because “foreign assistance has disproportionally gone to the provinces where concentration of troops and fighting has been heaviest,” said Josephine Bassinette of the World Bank. ”But the analysis in this report shows that poverty and food insecurity rates are actually higher in the more peaceful provinces,” she said.
Starvation of children is only one measure of the savage, unnecessary U.S. war in Afghanistan. Last month, Amnesty International found that an average of four hundred people are displaced in every day in Afghanistan, bringing the total displaced population to approximately 500,000.
Amnesty Afghanistan researcher Horia Mosadiq said: “Thousands of people are finding themselves living in freezing, cramped conditions and on the brink of starvation, while the Afghan government is not only looking the other way but even preventing help from reaching them.”
The U.S. continues to make no progress in its failed effort to stabilize Afghanistan and build a reliable client state. Rates of violence continue to hit record highs and civilian casualties have risen for every 6 month period since the surge in 2009.
