THE BEDLAM IN AFGHANISTAN
is so shocking; it is quite dangerous to world peace, and particularly to us India; it is the ultimate consequence of the quite unwarranted invasion and suppression of that country by the American imperialists. And now the hasty and humiliating flight of American forces without any concern towards the horrible consequences to the anti/non-Taliban people/forces there is quite sickening. Taliban, a radical Islamic organization, was in fact created and nurtured by the US deep state for its sinister operations against the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in the late 70s; and then came to power after the Soviet withdrawal. The US Government was cozy with the Afghan Government and its Godfather-patron Pakistan later, but after the 9/11 attacks, President Bush, accusing Taliban of sheltering and acting under bin Laden and al Qaeda, invaded and toppled them. But this time too, the invaders never had a peaceful day. Actually no aggressor of Afghanistan ever escaped without the ultimate defeat. The British invasion of Afghanistan in the 19th century ending in its humiliating defeat with only one soldier coming back (in fact deliberately spared) to report to his command is not too old to be forgotten. Mighty America, the much bragging ‘only superpower’ in the world, also meets a similar debacle now and we are still witnessing this utter humiliation faced by the US. Taliban returns to power with gusto but the masses of Afghans and certainly its neighbors (except Pakistan) are not at all happy as they know well about the fanatic horrors perpetrated by these merciless terrorists. It is very hard to believe the few songs of harmony and peace occasionally sung by Taliban now – of course, if they publicly apologize for the destruction of, and re-erect, the Bamyan Buddhas, declare the country a democratic republic with basic rights including women’s freedoms, etc. then one may rethink about any such ‘change of heart’. But this editor feels our Indian Government failed miserably in this crisis to protect the thousands of Indian origin persons suffering there. We should have sent our air force/ army, occupied the Kabul airport and arranged a safe/orderly evacuation of all Indian origin, as also other helpless, persons there within a week or so, in which short time Taliban could not do any substantial damage to our forces. Even now it is not too late for us India to firmly intervene and save the distressed people there through effective evacuation. §§§
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