You’ll sow as you shall reap

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“When you decide to plant barley in your back garden, and make sure to use the best types of seeds, fertilize the soil, and irrigate it with fresh, clean water, you will not reap cherries or pistachios, but barley.” We congratulate the Afghan people for the return of ‘Taliban’ to rule over them in the name of the Islamic Emirate. This happened after twenty years of their enforced absence and failure of the Americans to move them to the twenty-first century, just like what had happened earlier in Somalia, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, Libya and other nations.

This is unlike the era of successful military interventions and the great results they achieved in Japan, Germany and South Korea, because these nations rose to the ranks of developed countries, thanks to American money and technology.


Our colleague Sami Al-Behairi believes the attempt to impose progress on backward peoples is a failed process, especially if their backwardness stems from their religious extremism. These countries, and their ilk, see that their existence in this world is transitional, and therefore it is not the responsibility of the government to build the land and people and take care of their well-being, but rather impose guidance (forcibly) on everyone, according to the concept of the ruler.


Away from conspiracy theories, and the number of contradictions reported by political analysts, and how the rapid fall of Kabul to Taliban was planned, and the Americans leaving behind huge amounts of military arsenal and equipment was rather intentional, and the aim was to make the Taliban a force, hinder the Chinese expansion and put a dent to Russian ambitions and eliminate Iranian penetration, and so on.


No one disagrees that America made fatal mistakes in Afghanistan, abandoned its friends and those who cooperated and served it for two decades, and left them to their horrific fate and this is an unforgivable betrayal. On the other hand, this is how countries that become large usually act so that it becomes difficult to manage them, at least externally, with high efficiency.


I think, or I hope, that America has learned something from the Afghan lesson. This does not mean that it will stop interfering in the affairs of other countries in future, but rather it will most likely change its strategies. Its status as a global superpower necessitates intervention, whenever required. We can imagine what our situation here would have been like on August 2, 1990, had America not intervened and saved five million people from the hell of Saddam and his gang.


However, all this mockery of America’s intervention in Afghanistan is totally unfair, and it must be placed in the correct time frame. In September 2001, the developed world, and the entire Western civilization, was threatened with total chaos caused by the backward and unseen forces living in caves and entrenched with ideologies dating back to the Middle Ages, so something had to be done to eliminate them in any form and at any cost. It turned out later that it was really worth those sacrifices, but the problem is that the memory of some is weak.

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By Ahmad alsarraf

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