Meet the terrorists of tomorrow

Afghanistan has been a battleground for self-serving interests at least since I was born. In fact, even before I was born, it was the buffer zone between British India in the South and the Soviet Union in the North, resulting in three major Anglo-Afghan wars. Then there was the Soviet invasion in 1979, then the Mujahideen in 1992, then the Taliban in 1994-5 and now the whole world is fighting their wars on this war-ridden land.

In all these events, some Afghans have always exhibited loyalty, sometimes overtly and sometimes covertly, to one group or another, but I would rather call them being "used" by foreign interests. Their being used repeatedly, however, is not that surprising to me. At the end of the way, they are getting something out of it too even though it may cost them their lives in this world and for those who believe in the hereafter, severe punishments there. They are not likely to succeed in anything else anyway, so fighting is their only profession for which they get paid.

What really is surprising to me is the behavior of those who attempt to use them. Have they never heard the saying 'what goes around comes around?' Are they too naïve to realize this or do they suffer from some sort of amnesia or is there some cost benefit analysis that I am entirely missing out on? Do they think that the world is too brainless to believe that they are truly fighting terror and too blind to see their active role in creating terrorists in an endless cycle of defeating one by the other?!? The freedom fighters of today are the terrorists of tomorrow and this trend will go on without some sort of awakening of the public or a moral rebirth among the “enlightened” few.

Meet the terrorists of tomorrow. Click here to get "enlightened"

Here is my favorite quote on enlightenment from this article:

"The Defence chief admitted that when Australian troops arrived in Oruzgan they did not understand the complex ''tribal dynamics'' but now had a more ''enlightened'' view."