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A Voice from RAWA: Zoya on Afghanistan
Barack Obama announced last night that the US would be sending 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. (No word on how many private contractors would be accompanying them.) He did not explicitly use the Afghan women as justification, but many politicians have, claiming that we cannot leave the women to their fate.
RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, is an underground women’s organization and one of the groups that predicted a long, deadly engagement. Zoya is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of RAWA and she joined us to talk about what would really be best for the women--and all the people--of Afghanistan. The Afghan Women's Mission has coordinated her speaking tour.
Zoya is a pseudonym and her face is obscured to protect her identity.
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In light of all of this. Here are some quote which inspire our more geostrategically inclined, obviously working in places like the State Dept, CIA and the Pentagon.
Creating trouble amongst “vassals” is necessary part of the containment strategy. Dis-enabling 50% of the “vassals” which would be women and girls is a big part of the divide and conquer strategy used by these types let’s say since the time of Babylon! Probably why its written into religious books edited from there!
Let’s just call this cynical strategy of support of Northern Alliance and war against women for what it has always been.
NB Soviet escalation in Afghanistan led to the “break up of the USSR”…just how have things changed for us now? and how is Petraeus’ strategy going to get a different outcome? Fareed Zakaria’s got some ideas about the mismatch of this military strategy.
“To put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.” Zbigniew Brzezinski “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives” HarperCollins 1997
“Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam War. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.” Zbigniew Brzezinski, Nouvel Observateur, January 15-21, 1998 (French edition, not American edition which published an abridged version of the interview).
By AlbyFlugzeug on December 3rd, 2009 at 2:38 pm