Nowadays we don’t hear much on the news about Afghanistan. 🇦🇫
Well I haven’t forgotten about it given I published two blog posts about it.
Afghanistan: the nation in horrifyingly trouble
So what now after US withdrawal?
Well the country is now already taken by the Taliban. Terrorist group that had been ousted out of power by America in 2001 after 9/11 attacks occurred on September 11th.
In fact few weeks ago, America and the world marked 20 years since the awful tragedy that happened in New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania.
However we all know the truth that Afghanistan was not responsible for 9/11 attacks. We know Al Qaeda & Osama Bin Laden (the perpetrators. Mostly of them came from Saudi Arabia) are responsible for that. No doubt about it but why invade the country that didn’t attacked America? Gone to invade Iraq on the false impression that the country had chemical weapons which they (Iraqis) never had whilst going after the dictator Saddam Hussein.
The war in Afghanistan was America’s longest war since the Vietnam war. NATO troops including the UK were there. Following America’s lead.
With all of Foreign troops gone, life in Afghanistan have become much harder for the Afghans under the Taliban rule. The govt under Tailban have been contradicting so much given we the world don’t believe the word they say. Despite insisting that they have “changed” since the 1990s.
Well here is a quote. A Leopard never changes his spots.
Look at the news articles since the presence of Americans, British and US led coalition allies (NATO) are no longer there in Afghanistan. It is very unbelievably bad.
Now does it look the Taliban have changed their ways since gaining grounds across Afghanistan & coming into power? Absolutely not
Afghan women and girls are being treated horribly like a second class citizens. They (Taliban) even removed female TV anchors and replacing them with their own members. Taliban having a media air platform to the world. It really makes me my skin crawl to see these awful barbarians who have no regards to human rights.
That brings me back to the question that I said in previous blog post. What have America, Britain and NATO done for the last 20 years other than the eradication of Al Qaeda and Bin Laden? None
The withdrawal from Afghanistan should had been done smoothly, safely and orderly. Instead, it was done chaotically. I am not impressed with Joe Biden (US President) at all. No wonder the last president (Donald Trump) was so selfish to negotiate with the Taliban in February 2020 on the condition that they (US troops) should be out of Afghanistan.
As an person who is strongly against war and intervention, I support the withdrawal. However NATO troops should had been out of Afghanistan long time ago even Biden admitted that America was not there for “nation building”.
Finally, for some of the Afghan people who had left the country which is now already in very awful mess, became refugees & being settled in their new countries: UK, USA, Canada, Germany, Spain & other countries.
This is why America shouldn’t had invaded & occupy Afghanistan in the first place. When it comes to war, conflict & poverty (particularly extreme poverty) & even climate change, that’s where people in their own countries becomes refugees and asylum seekers.
Even America admitted that it was mistake to use a drone strike to kill innocent Afghans who were not members of ISIS K (ISIS affiliate of terror group).
Here in the UK, we really got to get our homes in order because the Home Office are clearly not thinking sense. Wanting to turn away refugees and asylum seekers from countries like Afghanistan, Iran, Yemen, Syria, Iraqi & even Somalia and Kurdistan in the English Channel on the boat back to France. google.co.uk Which is where they are currently based in Calais.
Recently in America, US border patrol officers whipped the migrants from Haiti in Del Rio, Texas. Haiti have suffered enough problems: the assassination of the president & recent earthquake (first time since 2010). google.co.uk reuters.com
There will always be ignorant people who doesn’t want refugees and asylum seekers whether they arrived in the country legally or illegally. Refugees & asylum seekers is distinctly different from migrant/immigrant (economic migrants) so it is not the same. For those who doesn’t want refugees and asylum seekers coming to any country like USA, UK or any country, the person is ignorantly racist, bigot and xenophobic.
When asylum seekers and refugees come to the country, we should politely welcome them with open arms and acknowledge why the person is in difficult position & to make a new home until eventually the person can return to the country they had fled & that the country that he/she originally from is in stability and recovered.
I hope and pray one day that would be the case for Afghanistan and other countries being affected by war and bad authoritarian govt. 🇦🇫
My thoughts goes to the Afghan people.
Shame on Taliban and definitely shame on the West (USA, UK & NATO). This would be the last time I talked about the country who is in trouble. Horrifying trouble and that the Afghans (Afghan citizens) definitely needs help from the international community. Please help the Afghan people if you can. Thank you.
🇦🇫🙏
No comments:
Post a Comment