Some have the intention of turning the White House and the Kremlin Palace into mosques and Husainiya...
Author: Muhammad Qadeer Mesbah, an expert on regional issues, especially for Sangar.
Afghanistan has a long history. Many historians have purposefully or biasedly written a circular reflection of the social, political, economic, and cultural narratives and events of this country. They turned it into prose and elegy, into Masnavi stanzas, sonnets, quatrains, and heartfelt couplets. For some, these scriptures highlighted the call to return to the past of the history of Afghanistan, I can say with confidence, the cultivation of this mentality brought honor to many, but for some, it is considered humiliation, meanness, and slander. It should be noted that the main history was written with such events in every corner of the world.
A number of people praised the victorious roles of the strong and the swordsmen, and even writers, poets, and historians composed songs and praises to receive gifts for their work. They wrote books to clean up the committed crimes as much as possible and wash away the blood stains of crimes, aggressions, and military campaigns. They must fill the pages with the ink of this delicious cake and write their visions of the nightly yawns and daily bows of the rulers in power and turn their every action and inaction into a document of honor. This type of people we can see today too.
The experience of the last five decades has shown us that the mental manifestations of the confrontation between the left, right, and centrists in the country, were clear evidence of the Afghan catastrophe and appeared in tragic images on the screen of today's events and added another leaf to this story.
Sometimes when I think about these last five decades, I meet writers and experts on Afghanistan who have never been to Afghanistan, the beating heart of Asia, and may have seen Kabul and Kandahar in dreams, in movies, and on optical screens. They watched TV shows or radio waves caressed their ears, whether they wrote correctly or incorrectly is another question.
This is their right and there are no claims against them. We are to blame for everything. It was we who wrote, spoke, and printed newspapers and magazines and lured the audience into the suspense of our ignorance and black thinking. But I am surprised by some people born in this geography who still believe in applied theory and imagination as if they never belonged to this earth and water and never breathed its air and never felt the scourge of poverty and misery. Maybe they belong to another world and another geography, but rather see themselves as a wave of the totality of the system in the form of the workers of the world. When there was and is no big factory, no such union, no industry and mines with a working class, no mobilized people under any program based on alignment with the workers of the world, these people are so excited that one is amazed.
A number of them ended up in the universal regiment of Islam and got stuck. For years they intend to export Islam to the world of godlessness and its victory over imperialism and communism, to turn the White House and the Kremlin Palace into mosques and husayniya, which they are not able to do even in most Islamic countries. They are not even accepted by those Islamic countries. Not a single official or political and governmental frontier gate has opened before them in these five decades. Apart from organizing several world conventions and charity events, they did nothing.
The saddest thing that happened is only the activation of the killing machine in Afghanistan in order to instill Western and Eastern phobia in the mentality of people. And our ignorant generation is building a generational mobilization under the pretext of fighting global imperialism and irreligious communism, and from a peasant and primitive society that did not pay attention to global interactions, it only recruited victims and got meat for sacrifice.
These lines are not based on a strong hypothesis based on legal and historical rules, but rather on my point of view based on narratives, visions, and materials that focus on a blood-drenched Afghanistan with poverty, misery, and displacement. Where the level of education is low, there is no access to basic rights, safe drinking water, safe transport, education, equal rights for men and women, and healthy food. Where no one thinks about eradicating poverty and hunger and creating a healthy environment. But all this, in the light of the concepts of geopolitics, geoeconomics, geostrategy, and geohydrology of Afghanistan, which defeated British colonialism, communism, America, and terrorism with the participation of neighbors, has turned into a pipe dream in more than five decades.
Now that the West, especially at the head of the United States of America, for more than 20 years of presence in this country and the creation of military bases and security belts, has not been able to see its face in the republican system under the cloak of Hamid Karzai and the cries of Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai. And this glorious presence as a gamble was sold under the mascot of Doha in a card game to the hairy and moss-shrouded Taliban. These days, the US is pouring millions of dollars weekly into the Taliban government in Kabul as compensation, and talks about inclusive government and internal group conflict within the Taliban.
In the last game, by sending the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Prime Minister of the Government of Qatar to Kandahar, dismissing the Prime Minister of this group under the pretext of illness, they encourage and practice the theory of Pakistanophobia, Sinophobia, Indophobia, and Russophobia, while turning the public against the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. And in order to attract attention and pressure on Pakistan, they have suspended more than 2 billion in aid from Arab countries and over 1 billion in Western aid to this country to impose and fulfill two tasks by using other chess pieces by the Taliban:
FIRST, Pakistan, through the Taliban, must prevent the development of the One Belt and One Road project, which is focused on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan, and disrupt China's game of regional and global hegemony as soon as possible and prevent Chinese projects in the formation of power relations in this geography.
SECOND, Pakistan should speed up the process of handing over the center of the extremist and radical Taliban to Kandahar under the guise of forming an organized and extremist army of 80,000 men. The Taliban should intensify this process, which will lead to the evacuation of Kabul and the north and create more opportunities for the presence of moderate people, Afghans who have taken refuge in foreign countries, and the formation of an inclusive government and a green belt region for donor countries. In turn, they see these changes as a suitable basis for an Islamic government stemming from the Doha clause and want to restart the Doha negotiation process. Most believe that the secret meetings of the Qatari foreign minister in Kandahar, rather than in Kabul, are indicative of the same American policy.
Here a new question arises: can the peripheral and regional countries of Afghanistan, in particular the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which sees the threat of terrorism, drugs, and extremism in the Afghan Taliban, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, etc., based in Afghanistan, agree with US plan in Doha?
Kabul or Kandahar? Is that the problem?