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Editorial See other Editorial Articles Title: Why Afghanistan? No Answer! Why Afghanistan? No Answer! DR. ABDUL RUFF COLACHAL IT is apparent the US-led NATO had hatched a long term plan even as the Soviets were occupying Afghanistan to prevent fall of pro-Soviet regime there. Once they kicked the Soviets from there by influencing M. Gorbachev they wanted to execute their plan but waited for years before they could go about it under “terrorism” cover. End of communist regime in Moscow and disintegration of USSR offered them hopes and enabled them invade Afghanistan as a terror zone. Reports of those days suggest that western world was unhappy that Taliban removed a stone-god made by man and hence the war. However, indications suggest the western media created phobia in Afghanistan coercing the Taliban regime to remove the manly god. In fact they should have left the stone there as a witness to the flourishing Taliban rule in Afghanistan. But it seems they were not given any choices. The remarkable video message from US president Barack Obama to Iran - offering "the promise of a new beginning" in his country's relationship with Iran - launched on the occasion of Nowruz, the Iranian New Year and Obama speech later in Cairo did enthuse the Islamic world to a great extent. But the western troubles in Iran’s Presidential poll and its aftermath al most destroyed the good-will generated by Obama. Pentagon-CIA-Mossad and their “willing” terror partners around the world are deadly keen to keep the tensions alive. The Pentagon/CIA/ Mossad threats and cold rhetoric aimed at Iranian aggressive postures to any US arrogance are not in the best interests of bilateral ties, especially US-Iranian relations. It appears the media imply that the NATO would like to prolong the terror wars only to find opportunity to invade Iran and hence genocides continue in Afghanistan and Iraq. While Israel and Neocons think a war with Iran is inevitable, President Obama considers the Afghanistan factor in normalizing tires with Iran . Withdrawing of the NATO led western terror forces from and allowing for the establishing a credible regime in Afghanistan should be the top most Mideast priority of the Obama administration. Unlike the Palestine issue, the issue in Afghanistan is simpler and President Obama has to signal the troop movement backward to their respective barracks in the western "democracies". USA- the root Cause The USA, the so-called largest democracy was responsible for all misfortunes that have struck Afghan people thus far. It was USA that played havoc in Afghanistan and tricked USSR to send in their Red Army and occupy it illegally, before US-led NATO did it in 2001. The new US administration needs to ponder over the fact that the western invaders have enjoyed their terror occupation of Afghanistan –and Iraq- for years now, but the nation has faced invaders for centuries. During the first century, the Parthian Empire subjugated Afghanistan, but lost it to their Indo-Parthian vassals. Then the Kushans were defeated by the Sassanids in the third century. Then the Hephthalites were defeated by the Sasanian king Khosrau I in AD 557, who re-established Sassanid power in Persia. However, the successors of Kushans and Hepthalites were later defeated by the Muslim Arab armies and finally conquered by Muslim Turkish armies led by the Ghaznavids. In 1738, Nadir Shah and his army, which included four thousand Pashtuns of the Abdali clan, conquered the region of Kandahar, now the hotspot of NATO terror occupation. in the same year he occupied Ghazni, Kabul and Lahore . On June 19, 1747, Nadir Shah was assassinated. The Afghans gathered at Kandahar and chose Ahmad Shah as their King. Since then, he is often regarded as the founder of modern Afghanistan. By 1751, Ahmad Shah Durrani and his Afghan army conquered the entire present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan , Khorasan and Kohistan provinces of Iran , along with Delhi in India. During the nineteenth century, following the Anglo-Afghan wars (fought 1839–42, 1878–80, and lastly in 1919) and the ascension of the Barakzai dynasty, Afghanistan saw much of its territory and autonomy ceded to the United Kingdom. The UK exercised a great deal of influence, and it was not until King Amanullah Khan acceded to the throne in 1919 that Afghanistan re-gained complete independence over its foreign affairs. King Amanullah (1919-1929) established diplomatic relations with most major countries and, following a 1927 tour of Europe and Turkey (during which he noted the modernization and secularization advanced by Atatürk), introduced several reforms intended to modernize Afghanistan. In 1973, Zahir Shah's brother-in-law, Mohammed Daoud Khan, launched a bloodless coup and became the first President of Afghanistan while Zahir Shah was on an official overseas visit. Reagan Doctrine Since the late 1970s Afghanistan has suffered continuous and brutal civil war in addition to foreign interventions in the form of the 1979 Soviet invasion and the 2001 U.S.-led invasion that toppled the Taliban government. In modern items, Soviet occupation and NAYOP occupation significantly weakened Afghanistan as nation state. The U.S. saw the situation as a prime opportunity to weaken the Soviet Union. As part of a Cold War strategy, in 1979 the US government (under President Jimmy Carter) began to covertly fund forces ranged against the pro-Soviet government, although warned by Jewish National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski that this might prompt a Soviet intervention. In March 1979 Hafizullah Amin took over as prime minister, retaining the position of field marshal. In order to bolster the Parcham faction, the Soviet Union —citing the 1978 Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Good Neighbourliness that had been signed between the two countries—intervened on December 24, 1979. Over 100,000 Soviet troops took part in the invasion backed by another one hundred thousand and by members of the Parcham faction. Amin was killed and replaced by Babrak Karmal. In response to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and part of its overall Cold War strategy, the USA responded by arming and otherwise supporting the Afghan Mujahideen, which had taken up arms against the Soviet occupiers. The Mujahedeen belonged to various different factions, but all shared, to varying degrees, a similarly conservative 'Islamic' ideology. Following the September 11, the USA launched Operation Enduring Freedom, a military campaign to destroy the Al-Qaeda terrorist training camps inside Afghanistan. The U.S. military also threatened to overthrow the Taliban government for refusing to hand over Osama bin Laden and several Al-Qaeda members. The U.S. made a common cause with the former Afghan Mujahideen to achieve its ends, including the Northern Alliance, a militia still recognized by the United Nations as the Afghan government. U.S. support began during the Carter administration, but increased substantially during the Reagan administration, in which it became a centrepiece of the so-called Reagan Doctrine under which the U.S. provided support to anti-communist resistance movements in Afghanistan and also in Angola, Nicaragua, and other nations. In addition to U.S. support, the Mujahedeen received support from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and other nations. The Soviet occupation resulted in the killings of between six hundred thousand and 2 million Afghan civilians. Over 5 million Afghans fled their country to Pakistan, Iran and other parts of the world. Faced with mounting international pressure and great number of casualties on both sides, the Soviets withdrew in 1989. Now since 2001 the number of NATO killings has crossed a million. India claims it ahs a role to play in Afghanistan and is indirectly aiding the NATO terrorists. By the end of 2000 the Taliban had become widely popular and captured 95% of the country. During the Taliban's seven-year rule, Communists were systematically eradicated and thieves were punished by amputating one of their hands or feet. Opium production was nearly wiped out by the Taliban by 2001. West cried over the human rights violations. In late 2001 the UNSC authorized the creation of an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) which in fact a hidden terror squad. This force is composed of NATO troops that are involved in assisting the government of President Hamid Karzai in establishing the writ of law as well as rebuilding key infrastructures in the nation. Upon killing all anti-American Afghans, the NATO decided to put in place a puppet regime to execute their orders and began the scheme coming alive.. This was necessary to silence any possible opposition in UN or UNSC- both controlled by USA and its allies.. After a nationwide Loya Jirga (Council of Elders) in 2002, Karzai was chosen by the representatives to assume the title as Interim President of Afghanistan. The country convened a Constitutional Loya Jirga in 2003 and a new constitution was ratified in January 2004. Following an election in October 2004, Hamid Karzai “won” by unfair means and became the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Legislative elections were held in September 2005. The National Assembly – the first freely elected legislature in Afghanistan since 1973 – sat in December 2005. Hamid Karzai, who otherwise rich has made enormous wealth since 2001, is seeking re-election now on August 20. His critical views about the illegal occupation of NATO in Afghanistan are resented by Washington which thinks the NATO is democratizing the Afghans before being murdered. USA has arranged big teams of over 40 presidential aspirants for the August poll to enable Karzai to win in the first round itself. Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal is an Independent Researcher in International Affairs based in India.
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