... the Taliban in Afghanistan are still extremely prevalent today. On September 20, 2015, The New York Times published an article entitled U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allie. This piece brings to light the horrendous acts being performed by US-backed militia commanders: the practice of bacha bazi, or "boy play." These commanders will chain ... young Afghan boys to their beds and sexually abuse them, while their screams can be heard throughout the military base. The issue expressed in this article is that the United States forces ... ...

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... American monopolized media. The imperceptible theory would be as follows: one sophisticated, learned and well-developed American citizen is considerably worth much more then a dozen, primitive, unlearned and rather pathetic Afghan nationalists or oppressed Iraqis. The teachings of the bible " an eye for an eye" (Exodus 21:23-25) would be bent a bit. Certainly the world would have to be kept ... opinion. Every accident-or purposeful mistake- would have to be dealt with by means of media relations. Only one year ago, after yet another so called misdirected attack on an Afghan wedding, an ...

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... president to vow "to wage war against terrorism, not simply those who were behind the assaults on New York City and Washington."1 Since Afghanistan sanctioned al Qaeda and Afghan leaders refused to "hand over the terrorists," they became "the prime target in America's war on terrorism."2 The United States believed that by bringing to justice ... ...

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... , but we need to be aware of the damage that our assistance might be causing to other nations. For example, when we sent troops to northern African countries we angered Afghan Taliban leaders. I think that if America takes the appropriate steps then we can accomplish much more than we already have. Still nobody knows the answer to the question: why does ... ...

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... fail to see that they have created an army of terrorists when they financed and trained the Taliban to fight the Russians in the 1984 war. This has affected the Afghan people so much thanks to the Americans who are equally guilty as the Russians. Basically the 1984 war in Afghanistan was fought by the Russians and the Americans, but the ... ...

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... . Allied forces are still in Afghanistan but in the article it talks about Bin Laden being alive and well. He seems to have evaded the bombings which lit up the Afghan sky. He still has a group of followers close to his side as well and it seems to show that George Bush junior cannot kill or capture the man supposedly responsible ... ...

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... of the pre-September 11th period. The time when Muslims were simply butchered, tortured, disgraced, massacred, mortified and God knows what else. The hatred that started at the end of Afghan-Russia war, gained momentum by the events of Gulf war, fired by the massacres of Bosnia, increased by the destruction of Chechnya, fueled by the forced mass migrations of the ... ...

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