Boys fly a kite above
Kabul, Afghanistan, July 2016. Photo: Wakil Kohsar/AFP
Comrades,
Another very hard-learned lesson in the futility of trying to impose the Miracle
of Democracy on those who don't want it and for whom it does not
work, and God knows - whichever one you choose - I'm no expert.
Any foreign power who
has ever tried to invade Afghanistan has failed, with the
exception of Genghis Khan who made a good fist of it way back in
1221, but that required slaughtering pretty much the entire
population. The "Infernal Triangle" will remain just that for
Western powers. Never mind the Taliban having to get on with it
before the end of "the fighting season" - the country is ripe for
a long-running simmering civil war, especially with the northern
warlords now very unhappy they've lost territory. They will
re-arm, and Afghanistan will return to its natural state of
self-governing warring fiefdoms. Central authority has never
worked, and
never will. The Russians could have told you that.
The utterly pointless
loss of life and the mega-billions in American (and Australian)
treasure lost over the past 20 years becomes yet another page in
the lil' history books, but the British really did set the
benchmark in 1842. Nobody ever learned from it, ever...history
repeats.
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