Saturday, October 17, 2015

The right to return.

Normally, the capacity to return to a country or homeland is preserved for refugees or immigrants. But, there is something else over looked. The right of return to culture being what it was, not as it has become.

Changing a country is not the business of the United States of America. Providing the opportunity to change is not self-serving enough for some. But, to occupy a country is completely wrong.

When the attacks upon the USA on September 11, 2001 occurred the organizer was in Afghanistan protected by Taliban. The reason Osama bin Laden was in Afghanistan was to hide from the world. He was banished from civilization and his hatred of society was more than obvious. Some say it originated from being one unique of many siblings. Some say it was simply pure evil. But, regardless of what brought Osama bin Laden to hate the USA, he did so with obsession. 

When packages of food along with messages of the impending invasion of Americans were dropped in Afghanistan from the sky, the country was one removed from telephones, television and basically the 20th or 21st century. They knew little about World Trade Towers or their collapse.

The people of Afghanistan have lived as they had probably for millennium. The donkey, the transportation of Mary by Joseph, was still the idea of modern and sustainable transportation in Afghanistan. The mountains would prove how life was dictated by a land where little grew. Afghanistan is not conducive to modernization. The frequent earthquakes in Pakistan should set an example of how a skyline would never dominate the idea of modern civilization in this region of the world.

Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan along with bordering countries of Iran, China and India would become a mission for change to the political USA. That is not the purpose of land or people. Women's rights and human rights are estranged from these lands. The Taliban is a manifestation of bin Laden and his madman mullah, the one eyed Mohammad Omar. The Taliban have only been in existence since 1994. 

1991 - Bin Laden  (click here) is expelled from Saudi Arabia due to his anti-government activities. He takes refuge in Sudan. Eventually, Saudi Arabia revokes his citizenship, and his family disowns him as well.

The financial inheritance of Osama bin Laden after his father's death is anywhere from $300 million to $40 million as his father's fortune was estimated to be about $7 billion. But, it doesn't matter if Osama bin Laden only brought one million with him, it created power within the hands of men who had never known it in the way of guns.

The people of this region are intelligent people. The idea the USA has been in Afghanistan for 14 years without changing the fact their primary agriculture are poppies only speaks to the stubbornness of it's men to have life as it always has been. The Taliban are the FAULT of bin Laden, not the USA. The question is are the Taliban the enemy of the USA? And answer is no. Are they the enemy of the people of Afghanistan? Perhaps. But, then what prevents the men to pick up guns and weapons against them?

It was obvious the Afghan people, especially the men loved the freedom to shave their beards after the bin Laden party went to Pakistan. The Taliban was mostly dissolved in Afghanistan until it reconstituted while bin Laden was residing in Pakistan. If the Taliban can be dissolved once it can be again. It seems to me the USA has over stayed it's welcome. That probably has been true for awhile now.

The USA has itself become stuck in a quagmire of fear at the thought of leaving Iraq and Afghanistan and not having control no matter how elusive that sincerely is. It fears that if the region is not dominated by America's presence the evil will come to our shores once more. Therefore, the USA is suppose to make a South Korea of Iraq and Afghanistan and keep it stocked with young American men and plenty of killing power. That is grossly wrong and one has to wonder what Japan would look like if that were the posture of the Allies back then.

So, to the amusement of those resigned to hatred as a real value in life, we have a new Taliban. One far more venomous than the one before.

October 17, 2015


The Taliban (click here) is emerging from months of turmoil after July's revelation that reclusive, long-time leader Mullah Omar was dead. News of his passing had been hidden from the rank-and-file for two years.
The ensuing uncertainty — and the naming of Omar's deputy, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, as the new leader — raised hopes that the militancy was wounded and could be forced into concessions at peace talks.
Instead, the new Taliban chief consolidated his control with the appointment of top deputies and the rolling out of an apparent PR campaign. A spate of battlefield victories followed. By the time Kunduz in northern Afghanistan fell to the militants on Sept. 28 — their first captured city since U.S.-backed forces invaded 14 years ago — it was clear that the reconstituted Taliban is a force to be reckoned with.... 

The USA is creating it's own enemies as it did with Osama bin Laden. The mission of the USA is finished in Afghanistan and the Afghan people have a right of return.