In most cases, war can be a solution when people are fighting oppression.
Author: Dr. Farid Younes, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Islamic Philosophy at the University of California (USA), member of the Sangar Advisory Council
A number of Afghans from the Republican regime came to America after the fall of Kabul, and most of them were cabinet ministers or military officers of the Republican period who opened a political office in Washington, the capital of the United States of America. This is surprising and encouraging to those who do not live in America. On the website of Sangar, published by supporters of the anti-Taliban resistance, from the words of a Russian commentator, translated into Farsi, we read the following:
“...In Washington recently there was a presentation of the United Front of Afghanistan (UFA, “Jabha-e Mottahedi Afgoniston”), a new military-political movement of Afghan emigrants. Its leader, former lieutenant general of the Afghan army Said Sami Sadat, announced his intention, including by armed means, to seek the overthrow of the Taliban (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation). Considering General Sadat's long-standing and closest ties with US intelligence agencies, there is no doubt that the OFA project is being created with the support of US intelligence and is an important step for Washington in the ongoing “great game” in Afghanistan.
Speaking at the opening of the political office of the United Front of Afghanistan in the US capital, General Sadat said that together with him in this project are former members of the Afghan army and security forces (police, intelligence) of the former republican government of Afghanistan...”
It is surprising that even a political commentator took this issue seriously, and in the United States, anyone can open a political office within the framework of the Law of Assembly, which is one of the articles of the constitution of this country. Only you can open any type of political and non-political, commercial and non-profit office in the same state where you live. This political office has nothing to do with President Biden's administration and nothing interesting and unusual in it.
It doesn't matter which Afghan flag was flown in that building because in America people have the right to fly the American flag or any flag they like, even in their personal homes.
But there is no doubt that Mr. Ashraf Ghani is interested in going to Afghanistan again, and if he goes, it will not be because of the fulfillment of any mission, but because of the compromises that he has made with influential US people in the Foreign Ministry, the Department of Defense and Congress.
I mentioned the issue of Ghani’s return last year in one of the “Fifth Republic” programs, broadcasting from Melbourne (Australia) by Razzaq Mamun. The return of a political figure in Afghanistan is not new and has taken place in history.
To this day, as I write this page of history, the United States not only has no military interest in Afghanistan but also recommends against the use of weapons, which is contrary to the political views of the Ahmad Massoud Resistance Front and the Freedom Front. A number of commentators, including myself, have been saying since the first day of the fall of Kabul that a group that came to power on the basis of ideology understands nothing of political sociology.
Thus, although war is not a good solution, it cannot be done without war to save ourselves from oppression, petrification, and ignorance. In most cases, war can be a solution when people are fighting oppression.
