Bloody History

Before this semester I really had no idea of Afghanistan history. To say that the last couple of weeks have been eye opening is an understatement. Afghan history is unlike any other country whose history I’m familiar with. For the most part, Afghanistan has been a loose collection of tribal families for the majority of its history. Succession of leadership is often a bloody and violent affair for Afghans, something that makes me very glad to live in the country I that do. In addition to that, Afghans have had to deal with the fact that their country basically lies in the middle of everything. They’re like the one house standing in the way of the local government building a highway and it has to be tough for them. They way the Russians and the British battled over them in the so called “great game” was especially brutal.

Perhaps nothing in Afghans history compares to the trials and tribulations facing the country now, in the current Afghanistan War, perpetrated by my own country. The sick thing about this war to me is that Afghanistan did nothing to the United States. It was a group of terrorists hiding in Afghanistan, yes, but the country and 99% of the people in it did nothing to deserve this war. Personally, I am against war for any reason. It is a shame that we had to have troops in Afghanistan to begin with, just to find Bin Laden, buts just the way it is, given the shape of Afghanistan’s military compared to our own. But to have that escalate to all out war is just unacceptable to me. I guess now, 9 years later, all we can do is hope for a quick and peaceful resolution to this.