![]() ![]() Many people would expect a quote from the Buddhist scriptures at this point. Wonder what the disillusionment of not finding suitable employment and the subtle and not so subtle racism that they will encounter will bring? Maybe an outcome similar to the knife wielding “terrorist” who attacked innocents in a shopping mall in Auckland, or worse. Meanwhile, the West is welcoming thousands of Afghans who in turn expect a land with pavements of gold and the realisation of all their dreams. Let the West find ways to feed them, medicate them and find them employment. Surely, the Taliban should spare their own countrymen? If they want to get out and the West is willing to take them let them go. Hundreds of people remain trapped in Afghanistan. ![]() Now, it looks like it is the Taliban’s turn for revenge. They also seem to have armed and equipped a dangerous and uncontrollable foe with equipment and arms left behind during this hasty withdrawal. America has wasted billions of dollars on what was essentially a project to gain revenge for the destruction wrought by 911. ![]() This is what has kept the Taliban going and has now resulted in them gaining back control of the whole country. Apparently, all they saw was a huge surge of corruption and total decimation of their values and standards. How the people expected deliverance but got nothing of the kind. There are many insightful articles on just how badly the Americans got it wrong in Afghanistan. Surely not the Taliban in its present form? The Taliban that so many British soldiers have died fighting against, isn’t this another level of ridiculousness? I saw somewhere that the British PM has said that Britain intends to work with the Taliban. Therefore, until some form of rational thinking can be displayed with a degree of credibility by the Taliban, acknowledging their regime will only serve to promote extremism within the countries that acknowledge that regime. Has there been any solution that can be accepted at any level?Recognising the rule of ANY power that relies on religious extremism is wrong. He was elected to rectify this and other situations. On the other hand, this can spark off an ideal situation for selling even more American weapons which have always been the driving force of the American economy.The brutality and the sheer lack of mercy (undoubtedly exaggerated by the western media) displayed by the Taliban can be attributed in part to frustration stemming from the rape of their country that was carried out by the USA and other western forces, but can it be justified? The geriatric president may have made a huge mess of things but saying that it was not a situation instigated by him is no excuse. Covid is still rampant but less talked about in that country and the complete disaster that has been the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan is utterly ridiculous, isn’t it? This disaster is even worse than the last debacle that the Americans concocted in Vietnam. With abject apologies to Tom Paine, who in the Age of Reason (1794), coined the phrase from the sublime to the ridiculous, the situation in the Pearl and indeed the world today, warrants the additional descriptive words that I have used when paraphrasing!Sublime could be construed to mean serious or worth considering therefore the pseudo sublime situation that came to the USA and the world with the voting in of a geriatric president should be looked at.
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