Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

Emotion to Americans In Face of the Tide of the Afghans' Sensitivities

Dhu al-Hijjah 2, 1430 A.H, November 20, 2009

In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate

Nicolas Christopher, a well-known columnist of the New York Times has expressed his concern about the surge of 40,000 troops to Afghanistan. He showed his dismay in his Column in New York Times on October 22. According to him, the troops increase will provoke reaction from the Afghans which will lead to creating more sensitivities among the Afghan movements.

He argues that in the past, the presence of foreign troops in America provoked resentments of our forefathers, considering them as invaders. They were never ready to accept them as protectors of people. He adds, then the Britain could not perceive the scope of the resentments of our forefathers, nor they understood that we were the real owners of the land. The more the Britain resorted to oppressing us, the more our resistance increased. This is an experience that provides for us a good lesson about the sensitivities of other people regarding foreign forces.

Nicolas Christopher says, we fought in Afghanistan twice more than the time we spent fighting in World War II. Our expenditure now reaches $60 billion per year. But still we have not understood the essence of the current resistance, nor have we paid heed to the patriotic feelings of the Afghans in our calculations.

If we presume that reinforcement of 40,000 soldiers, at least requires $ 10 billion annually, then we can say, it is enough to provide expenditure of kindergarten of two million American children. In the long run, what is in our interest, the money to be spent for the well-being in America or just send our youths to war in Afghanistan which is not worth fighting.

Christopher believes, Afghanistan will never become a brilliant democracy.

The opinion expressed by the American writer indicates that there are still Americans who know the depth of the Afghan issue and the sensitivities of the Afghans as regards the Americans and America. This is in a time the American troops are bent on using their total might against the Afghans and ironically, the massacring of mankind now has become part and parcel of their character.

Why the Americans are not ready to call their military presence in Afghanistan as invasion and occupation of the country while they themselves called the British military presence in America as invasion?

Like Christopoher, the Afghans too ask why we should consider the Americans and Western forces as our protectors whereas they murder our children, women and old men and why should not call them as invaders?

This is an open secret that the Afghans are highly sensitive to the American troops and they hate them more than they hated the Russian’s. The 68,000 American brutal troops are cutting the throat of our freedom with a blunt knife and they have unleashed bloodshed in the country. If they increase the number of their troops, say, if they send the requested 40,000 troops, it will prove that the Americans want to permanently stay in Afghanistan.

It will mean that they have come to Afghanistan to occupy it for ever and this will strengthen the tides of resistance against the invaders. Those Afghans who do not know the realties in our country and have been deceived by the daydreams of reconstructions and financial grants will realize to bolster the ranks of the wayfarers of the way of Jihad. They will become like a popular stronghold of steel against the cunning invading troops.

This is obvious that the people who have common faith and ideology and grown up on the same soil, will not accept the presence of foreigners on the basis of their natural traditions. The history speaks for the sacrifices offered by them and the war fought by them in the cause of freedom.

It will not be possible that the invaders occupy their land under any pretext and ploy and ostensibly extend them a hand of friendship.

Expectedly, the invading troops must wait a strong reaction of the people a country-wide upheaval which will send jittery into the enemy ranks and they will not be able to find an outlet to escape. Every son of this land of the Mujahideen will revive the epics and adventures of their Mujahid forefathers. They will take up their traditional arms and swords and fall on the retreating enemy to take the revenge.
 

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan