Saturday, August 25, 2012
A new development in Shitholeistan
The people of Afghanistan aren't known for having much in this life besides their farms and families (ruling class excepted). And they don't much like others blowing up what they do have. That being said, the rise of this phenomenon, assumong it is not a PR mans wet dream, is easy to understand.
In small mountain villages on Taliban turf in eastern Afghanistan, Pashtun tribesmen took up arms to fight the insurgents this summer, fed up with their heavy-handed tactics of closing schools and threatening families whose sons had joined the Afghan Army.Once these movements start, others try to assume control and all that makes up the fantasy land that is Afghanistan comes into bold relief. But they have been doing that for years so why not just get us the fuck out of there and let them continue? Let them do what they do best, fight amongst themselves.
“They wanted to make our children illiterate and miserable,” Malik Ghulam Rusal, a district elder, said about the Taliban. “We told them that if you want to wage jihad, go and fight the foreigners, not ordinary people. But they did not listen.”
What began as a ragtag uprising by rural woodcutters and shopkeepers in a few villages in Laghman Province expanded into something extraordinary: in just the past two months, the Taliban presence in the entire district, and then in a neighboring one, has been largely silenced. And in another eastern province, Ghazni, villagers ignited a similar movement to drive the Taliban away.
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