Militants hang 8-year-old boy in southern Afghanistan

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Re: Militants hang 8-year-old boy in southern Afghanistan

@Himalaya

I hate saying this so close after Independence Day but Pakistan never lost its sovereignty when it alied with the USA. It has never really been an Independent country. The whole power structure, elite is subservient to Western interests. The British left behind a system which no longer needed theri physical presence to rule them. Th only thing that changed is the Master.

The Americans, NATO, UN etc cant leave Afghanistan now. If they left there will be more turmoil. Afghanistans sovereignty has long since vanished and to be honest since the taliban have gone out of power, there is some light at the end of the tunnel there. In some ways American presence in Afghanistan is a good thing as it keeps neighbouring countries from interfering away.

It is very easy to criticise American presence in Afghanistan but at least they were man enough to stand up to the Taliban whose policies cannot even be Islamically justified. The Taliban were not in power because the people wanted them but simply because a neighbouring country wanted to solidify its influence there. Afghanistan is no better since 2001 but at least people no longer equate Talibanism as the true interpretation of Islam.

I am not sure we were immediately subservient to Western interests, the elites may have swapped the UK for the US as the masters, but things were still in flux.

I find Pakistan’s stance towards Afghanistan to be hypocritical, on the one side you have propped up an extremist regime to further your interests, yet you dump them when your master US decides to declare war on them (not referring to YOU, personally). Like them or hate them, but the Taliban’s stance (brutality?) has been consistent and they WILL be back in power after the US leaves.

Also, I guarantee that the US and NATO will leave, only a question of when.