Comments on: Life Under Marjah http://registan.net/index.php/2010/03/18/life-under-marjah/ Central Asia News -- All Central Asia, All The Time Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:53:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: shahzad http://registan.net/index.php/2010/03/18/life-under-marjah/comment-page-1/#comment-385063 shahzad Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:29:26 +0000 http://www.registan.net/?p=10811#comment-385063 Humans are continuously passing thru a series of experiments to attain peace and prosperity in their lives. I dont feel any hesitation to live under the rule of Taliban, if Islam will provide me and my fellow human beings a peaceful and prosperous world to live in. Humans are continuously passing thru a series of experiments to attain peace and prosperity in their lives.
I dont feel any hesitation to live under the rule of Taliban, if Islam will provide me and my fellow human beings a peaceful and prosperous world to live in.

]]> By: DE Teodoru http://registan.net/index.php/2010/03/18/life-under-marjah/comment-page-1/#comment-385051 DE Teodoru Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:40:14 +0000 http://www.registan.net/?p=10811#comment-385051 Mr Veemboor, I think that Americans are tired and just want to leave…willing to even leave all their “stuff” there. It's like a guy driving down Madison Square not looking at pedestrians. Soon he can't see though his windshield from all the blood of victims he hits and when his wipers are stuck by blood he gets exasperated, abandons car and walks home saying to himself: "Those people are so messy!" That' what we did with Vietnam. Ironically, the people who will easily open their pockets to send money for victims of hurricane, fire or flood can have no empathy for people where they came to show their manhood with their superior weapons. Man is an internal contradiction and nowhere did it seem more apparent than in combat. But still, we lose and attribute it to those “backward people’s” bloody messiness as if they're too stupid to do things our way. For the careerists who profit from such dumb empire our mom&dad soldiers must pay with life and limb. That’s the crime! Mr Veemboor, I think that Americans are tired and just want to leave…willing to even leave all their “stuff” there. It’s like a guy driving down Madison Square not looking at pedestrians. Soon he can’t see though his windshield from all the blood of victims he hits and when his wipers are stuck by blood he gets exasperated, abandons car and walks home saying to himself: “Those people are so messy!” That’ what we did with Vietnam. Ironically, the people who will easily open their pockets to send money for victims of hurricane, fire or flood can have no empathy for people where they came to show their manhood with their superior weapons. Man is an internal contradiction and nowhere did it seem more apparent than in combat. But still, we lose and attribute it to those “backward people’s” bloody messiness as if they’re too stupid to do things our way. For the careerists who profit from such dumb empire our mom&dad soldiers must pay with life and limb. That’s the crime!

]]> By: Bobby http://registan.net/index.php/2010/03/18/life-under-marjah/comment-page-1/#comment-385035 Bobby Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:34:34 +0000 http://www.registan.net/?p=10811#comment-385035 Except that the Afghan tradition of shuras and zunes, at the lowest level of quasi-government, has always been inherently more democratic and representative than what people give them credit-- certainly moreso than any comparable culture in the West, to include the ancient Greeks. If anything, the Kabul government the international community is supporting is more powerful, more centralized, and in turn LESS democratic than what Afghan society is accustomed to seeing in a central government. It's a nice talking point, Guptan, but as a description of reality, it falls flat on its face. Except that the Afghan tradition of shuras and zunes, at the lowest level of quasi-government, has always been inherently more democratic and representative than what people give them credit– certainly moreso than any comparable culture in the West, to include the ancient Greeks. If anything, the Kabul government the international community is supporting is more powerful, more centralized, and in turn LESS democratic than what Afghan society is accustomed to seeing in a central government.

It’s a nice talking point, Guptan, but as a description of reality, it falls flat on its face.

]]> By: Guptan Veemboor http://registan.net/index.php/2010/03/18/life-under-marjah/comment-page-1/#comment-384984 Guptan Veemboor Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:10:35 +0000 http://www.registan.net/?p=10811#comment-384984 In earlier centuries Christian missionaries wanted to convert pagans to Christianity. Now US wants to convert the simple tribal folks to democracy. It would have been better if people were left to their own devices and not impose something alien to them over them. In earlier centuries Christian missionaries wanted to convert pagans to Christianity. Now US wants to convert the simple tribal folks to democracy. It would have been better if people were left to their own devices and not impose something alien to them over them.

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