THE U.S. AND AFGHANISTAN

The U.S. and Afghanistan: Who desires who and why?



The U.S. and Afghanistan: Who needs who and why?

History

Before the Soviet invasion, Afghanistan pursued a principle of neutrality and nonalignment in its foreign relations, being one of a couple of unaligned nations to stay neutral in both World War I and World War II. In international forums, Afghanistan generally pursued the voting patterns of Asian and African non-aligned countries. During the 1950s and 60s, Afghanistan was able to use the Russian and American require for allies throughout the Cold War as a way to obtain financial assistance from both countries. However, granted that different Russia, America refused to give extensive military aid to the homeland, the government of Mohammed Daoud Khan evolved warmer ties with the USSR while officially remaining non-aligned. Following the Marxist coup of April 1978, the government under Nur Muhammad Taraki evolved significantly closer ties with the Soviet Union and its communist satellites.(Churmann, 2000)

U.S. Involvement in Afghanistan

The shift in US principle in Afghanistan from pro-Taliban to anti-Taliban, has not conveyed with it any change in the tragic status of the Afghan persons, primarily because the principle shift is one time more fixed in America's own attempt to secure its strategic and financial interests. Since the Taliban no longer plays a suitably subservient function, US principle has developed increasingly hostile to the faction. The shift has also, unfortunately, appeared without public discussion, without consultation with Congress and without even announcing those who are probable to make foreign principle in the next administration.

The imposition of sanctions on Afghanistan in the awaken of the US embassy blasts in east Africa attributed to Bin Laden, has not only failed to affect the Taliban, but has served mainly to devastate the Afghan population even more. Indeed, the US engineered a punishing Iraq-style embargo of war-ravaged Afghanistan at a time when many of its 18 million persons are starving and homeless, observes the Toronto Sun. The London Guardian reports that When the UN imposed sanctions a year ago on the Taliban because of their refusal to hand over receptacle Laden, the suffering in Afghanistan increased. The proceed has not injure the Taliban. They are well off. It is commonplace Afghans who have suffered. Those in jobs earn a salary of around $4 a month, scarcely sufficient to reside on. The genuine losers are Afghanistan's women, who have been for bidden by the ...