Well, this is unprecedented on my part. 2 posts in 1 day. Actually, the post preceding this was written yesterday, just that I didn't post it straightaway. Remember my previous post about the Afghan guy who stands accused of apostasy and has probably a noose hanging around his neck already?
Well, it seems that the Afghan judiciary has decided to release him. My guess is that decision was taken, thanks to, in no small measure, the overwhelming pressure from the countries who have "liberated" Afghanistan. Liberation from what?Liberation from living under the rule of God? Colonials have reared its ugly head once again. Only this time, they don't go about conquering other nations directly, but put these nations under so much pressure they readily subjugate.
Think about it, Afghanistan was a peaceful country inhabited by wandering nomads whose only purpose was to live according to how their God and Prophet had instructed them to. Living the simple life and being simple people, was not so simple after all. Alexander The Great had a crack at it, so did the Mongols. Then in AD 642, the Arabs came and introduced Islam, perhaps the one lasting impression from all those centuries of wars. The Soviets were the last to try. Not much success there. In all the confusion, a small band of freedom fighters who live by the book and implement the Sharia Laws (Islamic law) to the letter. They called themselves the Taliban. Initially, they were accepted and embraced. They then became reclusive and shut itself from the outside world.
Now, we have the USA and UK trying to dictate, in no certain terms, to the newly-formed Afghan government how to lead it's people. How to live their lives. I repeat my question, who gave them the right to decide what is right and what is wrong? The Americans, the so-called protectors of humanity, the so-called superpower, invaded Afghanistan with the pretext of ridding the world of tyranny. I wonder just who is the tyrant here, forcing its ideologies on the others, making others subjugate to him, either through brute force or through political pressure.
It's no wonder that Western powers are reviled in most Middle-Eastern communities. From the jungles of Vietnam to the shores of Libya to the deserts of Afghanistan and Iraq, their interventions have not only increased hostilities and anger towards the American government, but also to its people in general. I know that I sound very passionately against, to the brink of fanaticsm, of Western policies, but the truth is, if American pressure extended to China in forcing their ideologies on an admittedly Communist country, I'd very much feel against it.
No one has the right to force anyone else to believe in something or to disbelieve in something else. Isn't that one of the basis of human rights? Why then does the Western powers, the USA specifically, insist on forcing it's ideologies of democracy on the rest of the world? Being a nation who supports terrorism (read: creation of Israel), being a nation who cares little for collateral damage (read: Vietnam War) and being a nation without regards for international consensus and believing in the legitimacy of unilateral action (read: Iraq Invasion and Kyoto accords for greenhouse emissions) is not the kind of portfolio one would expect from a nation which regards itself as the protectors of humanity.
Winning the 2 World Wars almost single-handedly, while a great and remarkable achievement does not make one the perpetual protectors to everything living.
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