Russia started it with the occupation of Afghanistan and the assassination of the popular President Taraqi. When he spoke on TV, Afghans stood at attention in awe. The Russians may have built great roads in Afghanistan, but they were supposed to serve them too.
Et the time of Hanzelka and Zikmund, Afghanistan was a peaceful, hospitable country where centuries-old traditions were honored and women went without headscarves. What right did we have to interfere in their lives? Did they interfere in ours? We forced another culture, tradition and customs to interfere in our culture, tradition and customs too, in the interest of our own self-preservation. By what right? Did they interfere with ours first? Causes always have consequences. Today we are reaping the well-deserved fruits. The Arabs did not start it, but our "advanced" Western world, whose rampant consumerism and pursuit of profit at any cost, has stopped at nothing and will stop at nothing, as we see today.
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