The_Walrus wrote:
Afghanistan is not Kabul. Short skirts are not equal rights.
I am also bemused by the attempt to say that those killed by the Muhjadeen were "directly or indirectly" killed by the Communists. It only really makes sense from an ultra-pacifist point of view. Should the Communists have just caved in and allowed the Muhjadeen control of the country?
Regular clothes, women in the workplace and all that is nevertheless a step in the right direction. The jihadists were (sadly) the lesser of two evils, and the Soviet Union had no right to intervene to keep a corrupt communist party in place against the people's will. You're missing the fact that not all of the rebels were jihadists, and that the rebel force consisted of the people, and not a guerilla or the petite burgeoise who wanted to exploit a tense political situation to gain power.
My statistics stem from R. J. Rummel; his numbers are taken from deaths that can be attributed to the USSR and the "Democratic" Republic of Afghanistan only. After ruling Afghanistan for more than a decade, the only result was two million dead people, a profound regression of women's rights and a complete destruction of any infrastructure that was left in Afghanistan, thus paving the road for Taliban and preventing the country from ever being industrialized for the next centuries.
02 Feb 2014, 12:20 pm
