OPPS.... A LITTLE TRUTH SLIPS OUT EVERY SO OFTEN...
IN TRUTH THE "TALIBAN"...ARE REALLY THE PASHTUNS WHO HAVE HAD A CULTURE IN THE AFGHAN/PAKISTAN REGION FOR CENTURIES...
THE DIVISION OF PAKISTAN FROM AFGHANISTAN IN THE 1890'S...WAS CALLED THE "DURAND LINE" AND IT HAS NEVER BEEN RECOGNIZED BY THE AFGHANS...WHO STILL THINK THAT PESHAWAR AND THE "WESTERN TERRITORIES" BELONG INSIDE AFGHANISTAN...
THAT IS WHY PAKISTAN IS SO "PRO-PASHTUN" BECAUSE A GOODLY PART OF PAKISTAN IS PASHTUN...!
REMEMBER...PAKISTAN WAS NEVER REALLY A NATION UNTIL 1947...! PAKISTAN IS A GEOPOLITICAL FICTION...OR RATHER... A QUICK "FIX UP" THAT DIDN'T REALLY WORK...
BUT BACK DURING THEIR DISMAL AFHGAN WARS THE BRITISH WANTED TO GET THE BEST DEAL POSSIBLE AFTER LOSING THREE WARS...AND THE KHYBER PASS SEEMED LIKE A GOOD PLACE TO DIVIDE THE REGION...
THE ONLY PROBLEM WAS IT LEFT THE PASHTUNS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER... A PEOPLE DIVIDED BY A RANDOM ACT DURING THE 19TH CENTURIES "GREAT GAME" BETWEEN RUSSIA AND BRITAIN FOR CONTROL OF CENTRAL ASIA...AND PRESUMABLY THE INDIAN SUB CONTINENT...
SO...THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN IS REALLY ABOUT THE PASHTUNS...NOT ABOUT OSAMA...OR TERRORISM...
IT SHOULD ALSO BE NOTED THAT THE UZBEKS OF NORTH AFGHANISTAN WERE ALSO DUMPED INTO THE "NEW STATE" OF AFGANISTAN AFTER THE GREAT GAME ENDED...AND THAT BECAME THE ORIGINS OF ANOTHER HUGE PROBLEM...
THE UZBEKS ARE THE DECENDENTS OF TAMERLANE THE GREAT MONGOL/TURKIC CONQUEROR... AND TO THIS DAY THE ONLY PEOPLE IN THE REGION WHO LIKE UZBEKS ARE OTHER UZBEKS...!
PASHTUNS AND UZBEKS DO NOT RESPECT EACH OTHERS CULTURE AND YET HAVE BEEN FORCED TO LIVE IN THE SAME NATION...
CURIOUSLY HERAT IN THE WEST WAS MORE CLOSELY CONTROLLED BY PERSIA...NOW IRAN...BUT THAT IS ANOTHER STORY...
SEE THE PROBLEM...?
ITS NOT ABOUT TERRORISM AT ALL...
ITS REALLY ABOUT THE MISTAKES THAT WERE ALLOWED TO FESTER AFTER THE GREAT GAME ENDED FOR GOOD IN 1918...
OR WAS IT IN THE 1890'S... OR IN 1947...?
OR PERHAPS... THE GREAT GAME NEVER ENDED...!
