Jukebox The Ghoul
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As I said, I believe direct aid to the people now that we've left. But when we were there we should have done a large rebuilding project as I detailed in this replyI totally agree "we" should use economic pressure more and military pressure less. What does that mean in the context of Afghanistan though? Leave them to starve under the Taliban? That is not going to help the goal of reducing the risk from radicalised individuals to the world in general.
At the time of september 11 attacks, Afghanistan was already starving. In the words of Aga Khan " The 9/11 attack on the United States was a direct consequence of the international community ignoring the human tragedy that was Afghanistan at that time" and "The question I have is this: if these breakdowns in governance were predictable, why was the international community powerless to get engaged at the early stages to help arrest the deterioration and avoid the suffering that resulted? Secondly, are there common factors in the majority of these situations which are insufficiently recognized?" This suggests if one, large scale humanitarian aid and two, smaller scale action against reactionary elements were acted on sooner, 9/11 might never have happened. Additionally, the CIA, NSA and FBI already knew that they were planning the attack and did nothing and had many preventative measures they did not do.
My main aim is to build up these areas as much as possible and avoid war in the first place. I was just stating confronted with a threat like the Nazis, malicious action towards them is justified.
That speech by Aga Khan, also includes a lot of thought provoking questions and even suggests earlier action against the dogma of reaction and state-sanctioned violence. It's an interesting read.
Wel let's stick to Afghanistan then, surely an average Afghan that considers any foreign army there an invasion force that should be opposed by all means is morally in the clear - no ?
A good patriot.
I'm sure there are many of those...
Not everyone is a nationalist. Not everyone likes the Taliban. If I lived in Nazi Germany, I would not think automatically that I must resist the allies because they're technically invading my country. No, I'd cheer them on. In the same way technically the USA invaded Syria, but I do not think the Kurds are bad for working with the USA, considering Assad was trying to exterminate them.
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