Another disaster is being reenacted right now, people falling from American planes, panicking as they flee to Kabul airport, and the slow wringing of hands as our governments wash their own hands of the responsibility of the terrible fate which may befall the country of Afghanistan.
How do we react, well I would think not with hate filled comments because hate breeds like, and the matter has to be handled with proper sensitivity. We have, the Western world, interfered with other countries for gain and political supremacy. Now we reap what we have sown. But others suffer, women's rights have been hauled back to a medieval nightmare of inferiority, but those young Afghanistan women have tasted freedom it will reside in their souls, quietly taught to their children, this is change.
Will the Taliban keep their killing off the streets, we must all hold them to account, we must learn that though we may find religious beliefs childlike we are prepared to accept that different philosophies are the right of others.
Above all we should protect those that flee, listen and understand the tears of our own military men, shocked by the sudden withdrawal and perhaps put reserve soldiers in to the cities to protect the civilians, a big ask I know.
Governments take a long time to act, it is up to the ordinary people of this country to bully them into humanitarian action. It is not just about money but about peace and calm in a war ravaged country, that should be the end goal.
Wise words Thelma.
ReplyDeleteWell words rarely gift anything sadly.
ReplyDeleteIn this case the governments were too quick to act, and then not quick enough to act on their actions. The U.S. live in cloud-cuckoo land and we live in their back yard.
ReplyDeleteRead this morning in someone's comments. It has taken 20 years, 4 American presidents, millions of dollars and lives to get to this stage of handing back the country to the Taliban. There is no sense in anything.
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