vendredi 23 mai 2014

Afghanistan, the country which is perfectly possible to conquer and subdue

Ever since the Soviets faced some difficulties in their Afghan adventure a mythical image has been created by certain Afghans and their useful idiots in the West: The view of the Afghans as a proud and noble people who has never bowed to any foreign power.



Yet this view is completely false. Below are foreign rulers of Afghanistan throughout history:



Median Empire (678-549 BCE) Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BCE) The Alexandrian and Seleucid Empires (ca 327-63 BCE) Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (256 BCE-125 BCE) Maurya Empire (322 BCE-185 BCE) Parthian Empire (247 BCE-224 CE) Kushan Empire (30-375) Sasanian Empire (224-651) Rashidun Caliphate (632-661) Umayyad Caliphate (661-750) Abbasid Caliphate (750-1258) Khwarazmian Empire (1077-1231) Mongol Empire (1206-1368) Chagatai Khanate (1225-1687) Ilkhanate (1256-1335) Timurid Empire (1370-1507) Mughal Empire (1526-1857).



These are not revolutionary findings. This is the established, basic history of the country.



In addition, the recent/current warring factions in Afghanistan are largely funded by foreign interests. The Taliban were funded by Pakistan and probably would not have gained power without the help of Pakistan. The Northern Alliance was supported by among others India and Iran.



In any case, it is clear that Afghanistan has been ruled by many foreign conquerors and powers, often for centuries for each individual power. These powers left marks and traces (hint: Muhammad the founder of Islam was not an Afghan and never went there either).



It is worth noting that certain Afghan groups claim descent from Alexander the Great and his conquering Greeks and Macedonians. Suddenly foreign conquerors are not so bad after all. Sometimes it is nice to claim descent of some famous foreign conquerors, sometimes one pretends those foreign conquerors never existed.



Now I think the current NATO/ISAF war in Afghanistan will largely fail in reaching its objectives. But that has more to do with poor policies and nothing to do with any mythological, pseudoscientific Afghan "national spirit" that never bows to foreign masters.





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