Don't leave us behind

I remember when Karzai refused to sign the long-term US-Afghan security pact back in 2012, there was not even a single person admiring him, in Afghanistan or internationally. Everyone called him a traitor. He thought though, very transparently, that the history is on his side. Global superpowers leave, you are left with the label of "puppet" on your forehead, forever.

The U.S. leaves with ZERO boots left behind because, exactly, they were defeated. They run away from the battleground of liberalism with tails between their legs. This is cowardice. If the U.S. didn't fail, they would keep their military presence in Afghanistan forever; that was what and why all Afghans wish for by signing of that security pact. Well, looks like Karzai was more of a realist one, 9 years ago.

Where are all those chants of democracy and liberalism? Where are those NYT writers, who are criticizing 24/7 everything Chinese and Russian?

Americans have a choice in future, to either leave us alone with our own, let it be barbaric, culture, government, and lifestyle, or when it destroys that, to accept responsibility to replace it with something solid, let it be a forever endeavor. Don't leave us with a vacuum of chaos!

Irresponsible superpower

There is no such thing as "deep tribal society" in anyone's genes. I am no expert in sociology but I guess people join a group because they have to, because they want to protect themselves in times of conflict. Much like in some Brooklyn's gang neighborhood, or whatever it's called. In good times, when the sun is shining, wind is winding, business is as usual, AND, the skirts are short enough, no one cares about tribe; no one cared about ethnicity in Afghanistan.

The problem is this isn't the first time the U.S. goes somewhere, practices its military prowess, and when its taxpayers' short-lived attentions turned to something else, they leave, leaving a whole nation in misery. Because politicians see that they can't cast any more votes out of such topics like Afghanistan. No imperialist superpower in the history, since Alexander the Great, has been behaving such irresponsibly as the U.S., today. 

They had so many chances in 2002 to turn things in the right direction. They chose not to. They chose to pick the most corrupt warlords to make them leaders, ignoring qualified, talented, good Afghan people. The U.S. cultivated, nurtured, and strengthened an administrative culture of corruption in Afghanistan by DoD contracts. Because it was more convenient for some administrative officials or CIA operatives. In Taliban's era, shopkeepers left their shops unattended to go for midday prayers, and no one was even thinking of looting the shop. Try that now!