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Oct. 21, 2009 The funniest Afghan event in recent years was/is the election that never wuz, a sort of marginal, buffoonish farce. Something Rossini would have dreamed up and converted into a comic opera. The only sane news of what is really going on in Afghanistan comes from kidnapped journalists who get to see some of the inside workings of the Taliban. Pro-war propagandists like to paint the Taliban as a bunch of religious fanatics determined to harm the U.S. . The picture that’s emerging from the accounts of Journalists who have been captive of the Taliban is quite different. The present day Taliban is not the same as the religious super-zealots who ruled Afghanistan and were overthrown by the American invasion in 2001. I call the new Taliban Taliban Two. Taliban Twos are devout Muslims like the rest of Afghans. They sing and surf the net. They do have a warped image of the United States and easily believe Americans are evil people. You can’t blame them for their views. Most Afghans had someone in their family killed by Americans. They also believe Americans are in Afghanistan to loot the country. Just like the most ignorant Pashtun, I can’t understand either what the American military is doing in Afghanistan. Kidnapped journalists have been treated humanly, fed regularly, given blankets, sometimes even provided with English language reading material. Talibans are aware of the inhumane treatment and torture their brethren in Guantanamo Bay and Bagram been subjected to (maybe I should ad Abu Grahib?). For security reasons, abductees are moved around quite a bit. Often they are kept prisoner in cities. The impression one gets is that Taliban have freedom of movement not only in Afghanistan but Pakistan as well. This indicates a sophisticated intelligence network that keeps track of the movements of the occupying forces. It also indicates that there is lack of intelligence gathering and penetration assets by American intelligence organizations (yeah, the U’S’ has fifteen intelligence agencies). As far as one can make out from open sources, Americans can only eavesdrop on cell phone conversations and drive spying drones from Las Vegas. In short American forces are blind. Often, it isn’t easy to see that a turning point in a war had been reached. Hitler refused to acknowledge that his war had gone south after El Alamein and Stalingrad. The U.S. has to admit that Afghanistan been lost for a couple of years already. Taliban Two would have never come into existence had the American military withdrawn from Aghanistan in 2005.
Like the Sultan in Rossini’s Italiana in Algiers, American military see but don’t see what they see.
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