Posted by Peter
on November 2, 2009, 6:14 pm
'Both men have displayed the Afghans' remarkable talent for nihilism.
Many foreign models have been trashed in Afghanistan, but their own governance only ever produced one of the world's poorest, and in recent decades, most war torn countries'.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/markurban/2009/11/how_talent_for_nihilism_made_k.html
Stange that he fails to mention the fact that the country has been 'war torn' in 'recent decades' largely because of *outside intervention*.
From the Soviets and the U.S. in the 80s, with Brzezinzski admitting that the U.S. had deliberately tried to draw the Soviets into Afghanistan, and then set about funelling billions of dollars in arms to the most vicious and brutal Islamist groups to fight them, which ultimately lead to these groups coming to dominate the society; then Pakistan and Saudi Arabia in the mid/late-90s, whose military and monetry aid allowed the Taliban to sweep to power; and now the U.S. again.
But apparently we're supposed to believe that the countrys problems stem from the fact that Afghans are prone to 'nihilism', and basically incapable of running their own affairs - a classic colonial trope if ever there was one.
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