I reported this comment but the admin didn't remove it. Seem like obvious racism to me
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Lol. I did two tours over there. The people loved us. They loved the government. They loved the schools for women. The problem is culturally, they didn't see a need to fight for it because of apathy. They figured "ISAF was always going to be here, so why need to fight for ourselves? And is ISAF isn't here anymore, then we can't support our selves, so why try?" As far as the schools go, they are voluntary. There are no truancy laws. They don't even take attendance at most of the schools. It was completely up to the family if they wanted to send their boys OR their girls. Under pre-ISAF taliban the literacy rate was about 15% and at the time of withdrawal it was almost 40%. The people wanted to go to school, the taliban just didn't let most of them or the schools that they did keep open were so severely limited in what they could teach.
The biggest red flag of this post, to me, is the use of the word Afghani. Any time someone says it with an 'i' at the end, you know they don't know what they are talking about. Afghani is a currency, Afghan is a person.
Thank god we don't have to worry about that happening he- err.... fuck.
Apathy - the human constant
I mean, political apathy is pretty standard in any culture, and there's no some doubt people - particularly women - enjoyed the wonders of progress and democracy, but there's always been support for the Taliban as well. That's how insurgencies work.
I wasn't there, but it was mostly fought from within convoys and fortifications, and even when there's contact you don't usually tell the guys with guns if you think they're crazy. Are you sure your sample of local opinion was representative?
I did human intelligence. It was literally my job to interact with the people. And we did. And not just to hear what they say to our face, but to get sources and find out what people say behind our backs too. I can, with high confidence, say that close to 90% of the population wanted the taliban gone. It was the other 10% that were the issue. And they were the very loud minority that news stations loved to interview just to claim "accurately showing both sides".
Under taliban rule Afghanistan was economically devastated and the second poorest country in the world. They had one of the lowest literacy rates in the world. And they had no healthcare system to speak of other than what was gifted to them from Iran or Pakistan depending of what half of the country you were in. No to mention their lack of infrastructure with the not even completed one highway ring around the country.
That all changed under ISAF and the people noticed. And now their past is about to become their future.
Correlation is not causation, right?