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By Robert Fisk
Editor's note: This article was originally printed in The Independent.
The collapse of Afghanistan is closer than the world believes. Kandahar is in Taliban hands-all but a square mile at the centre of the city-and the first Taliban checkpoints are scarcely 15 miles from Kabul. Hamid Karzai's deeply corrupted government is almost as ( Read more... )
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I think partition is a horrible idea because it supports Pashtun ethnocentrism. I'm not saying that I believe we're conducting the war properly in Afghanistan or that we're there for the right reasons; but fuck the Taliban and their beliefs as well as American imperialism.
The tragically ironic thing is that the Taliban and American imperialism have the same goal in mind, which is to control the population and dictate how life should be lived.
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