The government school system has completely collapsed. The lack of funding and cohesiveness amongst educators and government has caused the system to literally crumble. School buildings are also in war zones and a lot of them are structurally unsafe at this point. They have been replaced by schools of the Taliban. The Taliban actually offer guaranteed food and shelter to the children who attend their schools. Parents will even receive a monthly stipend. While madrassas are usually seminaries that teach different schools of thought, the Taliban use them to teach radically Islamic fundamentalism. Basically, they are brainwashing children into becoming jihadists or martyrs. On camera the man stated madrassas are used to teach children to play a positive role in society and that peace and love are vital to success. This was not the same explanation when the camera was off.…
In May of 2006, Rex Murphy; a former veteran journalist for the Globe and Mail, understood a great deal more than the average Canadian why Canadian troops are fighting in Afghanistan. In an attempt to help free the many Canadians of the frustration they felt with the government, Murphy published an essay entitled “What We Are Fighting For” that outlines the reasons Canadian troops are fighting in Afghanistan in an expository and informal way that Canadians will be able to understand. Murphy’s essay features an interesting mix of an informative but persuasive style of writing that attracts the reader to keep reading on and maybe even do some research on the issue of their own. His essay circulates around the speculation that “Canada agreed that eliminating a government that had sheltered and nursed the terrorist organization that committed the atrocity of 9/11 was both right and in our own self-interest, that not pursuing the Taliban and al-Qaeda would only leave Afghanistan as a potential site of similar designs in the future”. This being his thesis briefly answers the underlying question of the essay and he later goes on to answer the question in more depth. The essay itself supports Murphy’s thesis with great strength because Murphy’s reasoning is sound and concrete, he has done his research to give his essay accuracy, and his methods and style of writing are effective.…
Women’s rights in Afghanistan is an issue that must be brought to international attention. It has been only six years since the Taliban regime was taken out of power in Kabul. Many positive changes have occurred since then for improving Women’s rights and participation within society. When the Taliban were in power, women were not allowed to work, go to school, receive medical care from male doctors, travel without male relatives, and they were regarded as non-citizens without rights or representation. Over the past six years, women are now allowed to do these things; they are not oppressed like they were before. Women have a presence and voice in government and in the media. Things have impressively improved but there are still problems. Males still attend school in greater numbers because of security reasons and other restrictions. In the South and East of Afghanistan the Taliban is increasing its power. Nearly 150 schools have burned to the ground, 305 schools closed and 105 students and teachers have been killed because of the rising Taliban power in the mentioned South and East.…
Before the war, the Soviets had been supporting and providing aid to Afghanistan for a long time. Since, the Soviets supported communism and Afghanistan did not because many of the laws went against their Muslim religion. The leaders of the Soviet Union were concerned that President Amin was communicating with the United States. Which caused the invasion. They put President Amin to death and installed their own leader, President Babrak Karmal. Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union. He wanted to end the war and increase the Soviet troops to end it quicker. However, this didn't work, so Gorbachev realized that the war was costing Soviet troops and hurting their economy. He signed a peace treaty to end the war, which the last Soviet troops departed from Afghanistan. This is equivalent to the Vietnam war for the United States, both in economic stress, and social discontent that caused…
Yet while our principles continue, unscarred and secure, the same is not true in Afghanistan. There, the peaceful teachings of Islam have been cast aside, and instead are used to promote violence. There, women have no rights to education. There, human trafficking and massacres against civilians have become common. There, leaders are self-appointed. We are fighting for their safety and protection as much as our own. The battle we share stems from a desire to fight those oppressing freedom, not civilians caught in the crossfire. Food, refuge, and medical aid will be available to our friends.…
The conflicts that occurred in Afghanistan were the product of issues that stemmed decades back. The costs that were needed in order to continue fighting had many negative effects on Canada. As the military enlisted a vast number of soldiers, many lives were negatively affected by the war in various ways- which included death for numerous Canadians. Also, financial strain and time commitment needed had tremendous costs to Canada. Then, the goals that were set out and the outcomes that were met had significant costs.…
In his essay” What are we fighting for,” Rex Murphy discusses what he sees as the most compulsory reasons Canadian troops are in Afghanistan, to support some form of democracy that can resist malevolent influences and provide for its citizens, basic civil opportunities. Murphy begins his discussion with recapping the events leading up to our involvement in the Afghanistan operations, primarily 911, and supporting our ally, the United States in removing a government that supported such atrocities. The Afghanistan mission, which was UN approved, was intent on, most importantly, removing the Taliban and providing stability for its citizens through better government. However, Murphy discusses how without support a new government is not sustainable…
The war in Iraq is against a single man, Saddam Hussein and his government, while the war in Afghanistan is against terrorist forces, especially the Taliban. In this war, we are facing secretive groups that have no rules or laws within the chain of command while in World War II the men fought front line battles, as with most wars prior. We have every right to defend our culture and civilization but we are wrong to destroy people’s towns and lives with no logic, purpose or goal. We have been skeptical as to where the terrorists have been going and we have been destructive on our journey to find them. A similarity between the two wars is that the Nazi’s never attacked the United States and neither did the Taliban. Their allies attacked us, the Japanese and the Al-Queda. It is interesting how in both of these wars the people that we ended up fighting never attacked us in the first place! But, in the end, during World War II, we had clear reasons as to why we entered the war. We stayed out of it as much as we could and entered only when it was necessary for the safety of the American people. Although we had similar intensions entering the War on Terror, our suspicions of Saddam Hussein’s plans to develop weapons of massive destruction influenced the final decision of…
The United States should not pull out in respect for those who have died, and those wounded. To disgrace and dishonor them by having their sacrifice put toward nothing is sorrowful and disrespectful. The United States should remain in Afghanistan until they have secured a military in the country strong enough to defend themselves and keep Al-Qaida and other terrorist groups stable. Currently, this is not the case because military leaders have stated that, “the Afghan national police had been a huge…
"Q&A: Foreign Forces in Afghanistan." _BBC News_. BBC, 17 Apr. 2012. Web. 27 Apr. 2012. <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11371138>.…
As a result of so many negative factors, the United States has lost a clear reason for why we are at war. Winston Churchill described the conflict of war as a “supreme emergency.” The kind of war being conducted in Afghanistan today falls outside of the definition. America also has no terms regarding what a satisfactory conclusion might look like. The forces will never know when the goal has been met, because the visions have now been blurred. The nation should not be fighting a war without great reason and clear…
In an article published in October of 2011, former The New Yorker staff writer Mark Danner published an article in which he introduced the idea of post-9/11 America as a country in a “State of Exception.” In Danner’s own words, “this state has as its defining characteristic that it transcends the borders of the strictly legal…a position at the limit between politics and law...an ambiguous, uncertain, borderline fringe, at the intersection of the legal and the political” (Danner, 2011). Essentially, the rule of law can temporarily be set aside in the case of emergency. As foreign as this concept may seem, he notes that this is not the first time America has lived through this—the “altered America” of the world war eras can both be defined, by…
They invaded the country and destroyed their camps. They also disrupted communications between Afghanistan and their allies in order to raise the level of difficulty to “train new recruits and coordinate their evil plans”(President Bush’s Afghanistan Speech). However this was an act of violence, and this was not accepted by families who had a lost family member. One parent opinionated that although their son “.. died a victim of an inhumane ideology. Our [The United States] actions should not serve the same purpose… Let us[ America] not as a nation add to the inhumanity of our times’(Zinn & Arnove, eds. (2009). Voices of a People’s History, 2nd edition (NY: Seven Stories Press), p. 603.). In other terms, America was viewed just like Al-Qaeda was, a cruel and sadistic…
The U.S went thru the most tragic, life changing, mind conflicting event of all time. On September, 11, 2001 terrorist flew two plans into the Twin Towers in New York City. The terrorist attack on 9/11 devastated and ruined an enormous amount of American lives. Weather an American lost a friend, loved one, or relative, every American lost something valuable that day. Americans lost their right to feel safe: at work, at home, or at popular locations. The last time American safety was threatened was during World War II.U.S citizens are not use to war or violence happening in their country, unlike the Middle East. Americans do not reacted positively, when tragic situation happen. Their reaction to 9/11 changed the American perception of Afghanistan and Muslim culture. Americans lost all their trust for Muslims. That lack of trust between them created a whole new stereotype. Stereotype: A general statement or word, fit to describe a specific group of people. The American stereotype created to describe Muslims is anyone who is Muslim or from the Middle East was sent to America, to destroy their wealthy non dictated, country. National Geographic Channel says,” Afghans who fled their homeland for a new life in the United States are troubled to find themselves subject to suspicion and mistrust on the basis of their nationality and religion.” Based off of this information, Muslims are all being put into one pile, stereotypically. Afghanistan man who goes by the name of Fouzia Afshari says,” We are good people, we are civilized” who volunteers at Mustafa Center, an Afghan…
Operation Enduring Freedom (War in Afghanistan): President Obama scaled back military operations since taking office, in which he completely pulled all soldiers out of combat in 2014. Since then, soldiers have been rebuilding and helping allies, as well as conducting counter-insurgencies if necessary.…