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Well, it looks as if Afghanistan is doing so well,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4493596.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1569826.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/5031074.stm
But I guess that is unsuprising as the current US Regime abandoned Afghanistan to conflict in order to pursue a currently failing and unwarranted mission.
Al-Quaeda was supported from Afghanistan and Iraq had little support (until now)...
We are concentrating on Iraq... Afghanistan, after 24 years of conflict, is getting little attention...
Afghanistan is currently growing 90% of the worlds opium. After the fall of the Taleban child pornography, prostitution, rape, and other crimes towards women have increased, primarily because of a lack of security, and the wreckage of a social fabric that the usurpers (the United States/Britain) have failed to adequately deal with. Anthropolgist Micheline Centlivres-Demont notes "[Afghanistan] is a little less oppressive than that of yesterday, but even though the situation has improved significantly many challenges remain." However 'improved' only refers to the small amount of area within Afghanistan (Kabul) that is under the control of non-militants or warlords. Even within Kabul unofficial persecution and violence continue to be present.
Oh well, at least I didn't vote for this regime.
The world is interconnected, and although certain idiotic editorialist, [Charles Krauthammer] of the Seattle Times find the notion of an 'international community' to be an illusion, prefering instead to glorify the kind of international peace that is akin to the peace generated by a bully on a playground. Nations are constructions of the people they serve, and people everywhere, of whatever beliefs, gender, race, or ethnicity are fundamentally and completely equal. All nations interact with one another in a community where each voice is heard and the broader majority of nations work to affect change in those nations where human rights, or political rights abuses occur. This format of change is much more effective and long lasting, as the only change that will endure are changes that come from within the nations.
Foucault states that where there is power there is resistance, and although I have a love hate relationship with Foucault in this statement he is correct, whenever a superpower enforces its ways resistance will form against the implementations of that superpower. Indeed, we have countless examples throughout history of this, the subjugation of women within Islam, human rights abuses, the solidification of class structures, the expansion of homophobic laws within Africa, all resulting from the interaction of colonial power with a previously free people [free people in the sense that the people as a whole of a particular setting were able to determine the outcome of their own ethnicity/nationality].
In utilizing a series of differnet power bases the resitance is less strong, for I suggest that where there is strong power there is strong resistance, and where there is weak power there is week resistance. Internal change brought about by force and generated from the movements of people within their own nation is much longer lasting than when it is forced from the outside. Indeed, forced change rarely works. Sure conservatives would point to Germany and Japan, but I counter by saying that those changes were wrought by people within those nations, while utilizing resources provided by the United States.
It is only through cooperating within this community as an equal, not as a supperior, of other states that any sort of lasting peace will be reached, and any form of true humanitarianism will be reached.
ALright, off the soap box, there are gaps that I should fix, but it is summer, and I didn't proofread.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4493596.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1569826.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/5031074.stm
But I guess that is unsuprising as the current US Regime abandoned Afghanistan to conflict in order to pursue a currently failing and unwarranted mission.
Al-Quaeda was supported from Afghanistan and Iraq had little support (until now)...
We are concentrating on Iraq... Afghanistan, after 24 years of conflict, is getting little attention...
Afghanistan is currently growing 90% of the worlds opium. After the fall of the Taleban child pornography, prostitution, rape, and other crimes towards women have increased, primarily because of a lack of security, and the wreckage of a social fabric that the usurpers (the United States/Britain) have failed to adequately deal with. Anthropolgist Micheline Centlivres-Demont notes "[Afghanistan] is a little less oppressive than that of yesterday, but even though the situation has improved significantly many challenges remain." However 'improved' only refers to the small amount of area within Afghanistan (Kabul) that is under the control of non-militants or warlords. Even within Kabul unofficial persecution and violence continue to be present.
Oh well, at least I didn't vote for this regime.
The world is interconnected, and although certain idiotic editorialist, [Charles Krauthammer] of the Seattle Times find the notion of an 'international community' to be an illusion, prefering instead to glorify the kind of international peace that is akin to the peace generated by a bully on a playground. Nations are constructions of the people they serve, and people everywhere, of whatever beliefs, gender, race, or ethnicity are fundamentally and completely equal. All nations interact with one another in a community where each voice is heard and the broader majority of nations work to affect change in those nations where human rights, or political rights abuses occur. This format of change is much more effective and long lasting, as the only change that will endure are changes that come from within the nations.
Foucault states that where there is power there is resistance, and although I have a love hate relationship with Foucault in this statement he is correct, whenever a superpower enforces its ways resistance will form against the implementations of that superpower. Indeed, we have countless examples throughout history of this, the subjugation of women within Islam, human rights abuses, the solidification of class structures, the expansion of homophobic laws within Africa, all resulting from the interaction of colonial power with a previously free people [free people in the sense that the people as a whole of a particular setting were able to determine the outcome of their own ethnicity/nationality].
In utilizing a series of differnet power bases the resitance is less strong, for I suggest that where there is strong power there is strong resistance, and where there is weak power there is week resistance. Internal change brought about by force and generated from the movements of people within their own nation is much longer lasting than when it is forced from the outside. Indeed, forced change rarely works. Sure conservatives would point to Germany and Japan, but I counter by saying that those changes were wrought by people within those nations, while utilizing resources provided by the United States.
It is only through cooperating within this community as an equal, not as a supperior, of other states that any sort of lasting peace will be reached, and any form of true humanitarianism will be reached.
ALright, off the soap box, there are gaps that I should fix, but it is summer, and I didn't proofread.