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Dear Mr. Joyce,

 

In your post #86, you have stated:  “No one has yet answered my question about what the west can actually do to help Afghans”.

 

Either I have missed the question in your previous posts or perhaps did not take the question too seriously. I have a simple answer for what the west can do. What they can do is move their military out of Afghanistan and then talk, if they have any thing to talk about. In fact it is not the whole west, it is basically the US. Since many countries in the ‘west’ are members of NATO and a UN sanctioned had been granted to attack Afghanistan to look for Bin Laden so the European NATO countries and Canada decided to participate as one of the NATO obligations. Also to have share of the spoils, the real reason, only if there would be any in the end. Although I do not believe any one would be going home with any loot from the Afghanistan.

 

The Americans and the ‘west’ aren’t exactly in Afghanistan to help that country. They are there only to help themselves by killing as many Afghanis as possible. They are after the political control of the region to get close to the Caspian circle of energy.

 

I think I have mentioned the whole story why and what took America to go there under the pretext of looking for Bin Laden. With that fact explained, I must have thought that there was no reason left to answer the question as to what the west can do. They need to leave to allow peace in the region. If they want to help, they can help with money, and construction workers. They can certainly help no one with tanks and bombers.

 

Since you do not even believe that there is such a thing as the ‘American imperialism’, which is in fact the root cause of the whole trouble in the region, so no matter what I write, it would mean nothing to you.

 

The Daily Jang journalist is perhaps right in saying that people prayed in 1971 for the American help, but not for its invasion. Afghanistan is not getting help, it is getting the invasion – there is a big difference. The example that you have quoted simply does not apply.

 

Regards,

 

Javed I. Chaudry

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