There is something strange and disturbing in the "Saturn Devouring His Children" by Goya, is a horrible sight that you recorded in the mind, an image that will not let me to remember the brutality of human beings. This brutality has been palpable in recent weeks as the powerful decide their share of responsibility for destroying the planet with bombs and death by making an appearance every day in Afghanistan, leaving dead and more dead about a country that for years it ceased to exist in reality.
time ago in a English documentary you could see pictures of the former Afghan television, the time when the socialist government ruled the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan with the support of the Soviet Union. The image of a young girl from the country with red hair who sang without veils and dressed punk edge fashion in the mid-eighties I were very impressed, as Afghanistan has changed, and changed the world.
The capitalist West became the Soviet intervention in defense of China's socialist government in a crusade for freedom. Million dollars are spent to educate, train, equip and encourage the "courageous" anti-guerrilla, these kids so cute with its colorful turbans and beards neglected. It meant no, the end of the empire need to return the Vietnam defeat the Soviets.
do not think anyone should be surprised by now to know that the CIA and other Western intelligence agencies were commissioned to do the dirty work for the "liberators" Afghans by providing them with the best possible weapons and a strong media coverage. At that time even Rambo in the "most violent film in history" travels to Afghanistan to help as I said at the end the film to the "gallant people of Afghanistan."
Everything was wonderful in those days, did not matter that the guerrillas were religious fundamentalists happy, at last, after all, as the media said the rule in those years, praying the same god. Never mind that the mujahideen they had their women wrapped in burkas and without any rights, they were good while the secular government supported by the Soviet Union pulled off the biggest modernization of the country for centuries was the enemy to beat.
When it was 2001 and the Twin Towers fall suddenly it seems that the overnight Afghans and the gay guys were not as "perky" not so good for the cause. The United States launched against Afghanistan and found that the bullets that killed their "boys" were out of weapons paid for with funds set aside in their own country.
Afghanistan is between a rock and a hard place, between the savage imperialism dressed NGO that wants to rebuild schools and hospitals that previously has bombed and the Taliban that are just as fanatical as ever.
I wonder how Afghanistan would be today if those Afghan communists had left them to their work, I wonder how different it would be if instead of spending a million euros that it costs one to launch Tomahawk missiles against the civilian population had intended to development cooperation.
Now Obama, the new Bush ordered the deployment of tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan, the sale of aircraft to starving army of Karzai and also wishes to point out new objectives on the map of countries imperial enemies of peace.
For those with doubts still is not in play the global security, not even this is a battle for human rights in a country where the side of women allied bases are covered by their burkas. This too is related to democracy, that they care little of, the final rule is vital to know that there are underground Afghan juicy oil and gas reserves should be an excuse to keep an entire American military industry as hypocritical Obama said in his speech on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize "instruments of war have a role to play in preserving peace."
In this crazy world where rewards that has no merit for it's something I have clear is that Afghanistan is Saturn devouring his children.
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