A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
From Lakhdar Brahimi
The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.
Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.
There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.
Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded.
At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.
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