Chalk one up...
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Rohit Sinha wrote: After the end of the Taliban regime, people are feeling much happier I'm sure, as was evident from their faces. Not agreed at all. Only those people are happy who were in minoriy (commonly known as Northern Alliance) and currently ruling so called "democratic" Afghanistan. Majority of Afghan population is in the southern part of the country and having their views entirely different from northern minority. All the people who are given wide publicity on various news and television networks are those who belongs to northern Afghanistan where only 7% of total population lives. I had never seen any report about "changed" people from Southern Afghanistan. Rohit Sinha wrote: The woman I am talking about was feeling very confident of herself, and was happy that she could finally establish her own identity. In your country, my country and all the other countries, before marriage a girl is is regognized by her father's name and after marriage is recognized by her husband's name. It is a basic principle of Islam that a woman should be recognized by her own name any not by her father's or husband's name. This principle today is not followed even in muslim countries. Only Talibans given them this identity, which unfortunately ended. And according to you they are "happy" with "new" identity. WOW Rohit Sinha wrote: Anyway, she was able to walk around without a "burqa" Burqa is a part of Afghan culture, which is there for ages and people are still following there culture. Few have thrown it away and they are those who belong to ruling northern alliance and are historically tilted towards Russian culture. Even those Afghans refugees who are living in various localities of modern cities in Pakistan for 15 yrs are follwing their own culture. Yes CNN or Times Magazine may show something else. Note: Please don't think that i am Taliban supporter
I'm sure they were happy being denied medical treatment too. And banned from leaving their home unless escorted my a male family member - lucky them ! And there has been footage of women in prison and noone knew why, but the only way out was if someone bribed the jailers :mad: Or I could mention these 'honour' murders that have started becoming more common, particularly in northern Pakistan :mad: Also, I saw a number of happy people filmed in Kabul. The tigress is here :-D
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Though it also has to be said that the US is not following up very well on it's promises of re-building Afghanistan. Apparently Bush did not even mention Afghanistan in his budget request. I wonder what will happen to Iraq. Just a comment :)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.
Some links of interest. I haven't read much of these, but it looks the info on what's going on is in here somewhere. (boy, that's helpful isn't ? :~ ) http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/sasia/afghan/text2003/0110rebld.htm[^] http://www.export.gov/afghanistan/[^] http://www.futureharvest.org/news/afghanistan_fh3.shtml[^] http://www.afghanistandaily.com/[^] BW "We get general information and specific information, but none of the specific information talks about time, place or methods or means..." - Tom Ridge - US Secretary of Homeland Security
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Unfortunatly the country was already pretty flattened :( Uptight Ex-Military Republican married to a Commie Lib - How weird is that?
Oh, did anyone help re-build it?
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Some links of interest. I haven't read much of these, but it looks the info on what's going on is in here somewhere. (boy, that's helpful isn't ? :~ ) http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/sasia/afghan/text2003/0110rebld.htm[^] http://www.export.gov/afghanistan/[^] http://www.futureharvest.org/news/afghanistan_fh3.shtml[^] http://www.afghanistandaily.com/[^] BW "We get general information and specific information, but none of the specific information talks about time, place or methods or means..." - Tom Ridge - US Secretary of Homeland Security
Man that sucks. Just shows how I cannot trust what I read or hear from the media at all. After Bush's budget speech a lot of media channels picked up on the "no mention of rebuilding Afghanistan." Then in their articles they said with grand authority how Afghanistan is sitting around waiting for aid that should have arrived months ago. Yet from even that first doc you linked to they show the total amount (something like $5billion) as well as what has been spent, when and where, and what will be spent. Ugh. Do we have to travel to these places ourselves before we can get unbiased and plain wrong information?
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.
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Man that sucks. Just shows how I cannot trust what I read or hear from the media at all. After Bush's budget speech a lot of media channels picked up on the "no mention of rebuilding Afghanistan." Then in their articles they said with grand authority how Afghanistan is sitting around waiting for aid that should have arrived months ago. Yet from even that first doc you linked to they show the total amount (something like $5billion) as well as what has been spent, when and where, and what will be spent. Ugh. Do we have to travel to these places ourselves before we can get unbiased and plain wrong information?
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.
Paul Watson wrote: Do we have to travel to these places ourselves before we can get unbiased and plain wrong information? Well apparently we get wrong information without travelling. ;P Unfortunately, it appears the desire for up to the minute information outways accuracy, so stories generally skip past Quality checks. I wonder if an organization who disseminates 100% accurate news would be succesful. "ANN - The Accurate News Network - We get it right, every time." BW "We get general information and specific information, but none of the specific information talks about time, place or methods or means..." - Tom Ridge - US Secretary of Homeland Security