Afghanistan wouldn't look like a 13th century barbaric nation if...

...it weren't (at least partly) for greedy foreign interventions...Read this piece to see what I mean. Reading the article, please note that while this may not represent an accurate illustration of life all over Afghanistan, except in few urban areas, it is still a clear indication that Afghanistan has regressed terribly and it will take us at least a few generations to get back to where we were only a few decades back.

A brief look at the history of the country would reveal that these "extremist" and "barbaric" groups are not innately born so, but actually "created"...there is nothing intrinsically "violent" about a certain people, but rather what we let them become or more importantly what we "make" them become. Charlie Wilson may be a hero to many, but if one is really concerned about the state of the security in Afghanistan, the region and by extension the world, one can't help but to ponder on the role that he and the establishment that backed his efforts played in shaping the world we live in today.