Afghanistan is passing through very tough social and political issues. Issues such as poverty, corruption and lack of successful and sincere leadership, are the ones that the main-street Afghans, as well as the International community has been working to fix for a long time. Unfortunately, all attempts made in fixing these problems gone either bluntly wrong, or out of control of the hands of will-wisher Afghans and international community within Afghanistan. Finding a broad acceptable solution to the problem needs a brief vision of the past and present history of this war-devastated country. This will bring us to the conclusion that the entire responsibility of fixing and building its political structure, is mostly related to Afghans around the world.
A few years before the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, Afghans were already sunk into poverty and in an unstable political structure that would be accepted by international norms and standards. The communists at the time were relying much on the Russian intelligence and civilian expertise. Other adversaries were busy on bagging for weapons and money in Mideastern countries and West (West Europe, North America, Australia etc.). They did not worry having a strong and effective leadership at the time. Since than, a gap of blank-politics created by both the Communist Leaders in Kabul, and the opposition leaders in Iran and Pakistan.
Unfortunately, this gap created politicians who built world-known organizations. Most of these organizations carried banners, names, and ideas that were either extremely unfamiliar to ordinary Afghans and to their cultural provisions, or they were extremely religious and fundamentalists that were never tolerated or experienced in past Afghan history. Behind these motivation were not Afghans themselves. Due to their lack of political knowledge and understanding of the Afghan cultural sensitivity, they took these extreme Ideas from those who were not friends to Afghans but were lined with those nations who helped Afghans free their country in 1989.
Unfortunately, after Afghans achieving their goal of freeing their country, the international community turned back to a very important matter. The education of Afghans to rule their country was as important as freeing their country from invasion. This lack of educated politics caused the land of Afghanistan to fall into the sanctuaries of terrorism that caused to shock the world. In light of these historic experiences, democratic societies must learn that they can not tolerate another negligence regarding Afghanistan.
Afghans have also fair share of the blame in this matter. Why would they blame others for their mistakes, they let other extremely dangerous element into their country. They changed their sides of self-made politics and relied to neighboring countries in time-to-time matter. They were the one who never made difference between friends and enemies. If they would, Americans, who always helped Afghans in their tough times, would never get hurt, or be attacked. Therefore, they have to come forward and pinpoint the problems.
Eventually, I strongly believe that the idea of successful politics in Afghanistan will have no meaning without bringing, training, and educating better political leaders of Afghanistan to love their country, their people, and to put the interest of their nation and country before anything else. If one is capable to do so, should be welcomed to join and lead. All other elements should be re-trained, re-negotiated, and must be reached to converge them into the process of others who would be successfully leading the nation and country by the time. It takes a while, but it is possible.
Bashir Oriakhil
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