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Will the Dream of Resting in Peace Turn True?

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Will the Dream of Resting  in Peace Turn True?

The drama of great game of politics being filmed in Afghanistan for decades is mystifying for most of the viewers. In fact, politics itself is a scene with blurred quality on the screen that no one can easily figure out the main point behind the scene being played on the screen.

Political game is the same as a business and film industry game that before heading to take action, the entrepreneur of a business defines the target markets and film industry before investing for shooting of the scenes defines its target recipients of the movie that whom for the movie should be filmed and in which markets should it be released.

Simultaneously, politics is a type of business that some very main figures and masterminds behind the screens make billions by regulating the business. The same as manual business, political businesses require target markets in order to survive in the markets. Ending the political game means to put an end to a fast growing business with billions of net profits.

It is for decades that poor Afghan people have been living in detention. Every minute of life in Afghanistan is being past with fear of death and hope for peace. Since the Soviet invasion in the country, there have been mainly three political types of ideologies that have victimized Afghan society: Islamic Radicalism, Socialism and Nationalism.

Today's human tragedy in Afghanistan is the result of imposing these three political ideologies in the society. The nationalists have long been challenging to fashion a Western nation state in a country consisting of various ethnic groups distinct from each other by their linguistic and cultural features.

The socialists have been struggling to enforce a secular ideology in society where its citizens are well known of their strong commitment to Islam, the constitution which is much different than of a secular believes and ideologies.

The Muslim radicals including Mujahidin and Taliban have been trying to shape a pure Islamic society. But the poor people of Afghanistan are lost in ideological conflicts and have gotten puzzled that whose music to dance with, the ideological war instead of gifting the society with a better condition has led the country to its worst destruction.

Since 1979, Afghanistan has experienced various regimes. Soviet Union invaded in late 1978, but did not last more than ten years. Mujahidin managed to throw out the Soviet Union from the region within ten years of battle; finally, they succeeded to force the last Soviet troops to cross the border way out of Afghanistan in 1989.

But unfortunately, Mujahidin instead of shaping a government of peace and prosperity opened another chapter of ambiguity and uncertainty for the country. Their infighting for remaining in power took thousands of innocent lives in all over the country and lined up the opportunity for Taliban to take over the nation who tunneled blood streams of innocent lives during their five years era.

Taliban, along turning the country to a blood stream of minority ethnic groups sheltered the terrorists like Osma-bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda network in the region. Finally, Taliban as a result of a massive attack by Al-Qaeda on World Trade Center on Sept 11, 2001 were unseated from the power and US-led army with coalition of Afghans took over the country.

The invasion of US led army in the region and disappearance of Taliban from the screen for a period of time had created hope and life expectancy for the people of Afghanistan. The country was evacuated during the Taliban regime, but the US coalition army invasion encouraged many people to return to country and develop different sorts of business firms.

Since the establishment of transitional government in early 2002 up to now that we are enjoying the second phase of a rational democratic government; there have been huge development initiations. Afghan government with cooperation of its international alliances has put forward dozens of large infrastructure projects along challenging the security issues. But after a decade of war costing billions of dollars and thousands of lives including civilians and army men, US government declares the possibility of failure in successful accomplishment of ongoing infrastructure projects.

US led army launched attacks on Afghanistan under Bush's administration as a justification of war against terrorism in early 2002. US army along with the cooperation of northern alliance coped to take over the country within a month and threw out the regime of Taliban.

But the story did not end here, in order to expand war against terrorists, Bush administration launched attacks on Iraq at the same time so as to target Al-Qaeda network based in there. It was believed that Saddam Hussain heading a Sunni extremist government in Iraq has sheltered the leading master mind of international terrorists.

It was actually difficult for US government and international community to finance and properly manage the war properly that paved the way for Taliban to reemerge on the screen in early 2004. They appeared even more powerful than ever before and kept on challenging Afghan national and international combat troops in the region.

Financing the motto of "war against terrorist" was getting too expensive and over toleration for the people of America. As a result in 2008 presidential election Obama with slogan of "CHANGE" and promising the nation to end up the war in Afghanistan and Iraq led him the winner of election.

As Obama took over the administration of US government, he abandoned the "War on Terror" rhetoric focusing more on reanalyzing the war strategies of Bush administration and narrowing it down the war on terror to Iraq and Afghanistan only. Finally he declared the "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq.

Since the withdrawal of military from Iraq, America and the international community got more focused on Afghanistan. They promised Afghan government of providing exhaustive capacity building trainings to Afghan National Security Forces so as to get them prepared for handling the security issues by post 2014.

Right now, the Afghan National Army is already taking the lead in the regions with around 75% of the population with U.S. and NATO troops acting as a support. However, this does not include most of the insecure and challenging southern and eastern zones where most of the militants are homed and the Afghan forces are suppose to take over the responsibilities by the next summer.

Though Washinton has promised a residual of U.S. troops will stay in Afghanistan to train and advise Afghan security forces in the next ten years of strategic agreement duration. But how long should our economy and national forces be dependent on international community pledges.

Lack of assurance and current reemergence of insurgent extremists add question marks on a decade of war strategy of U.S.A and International Community. Despite being and reporting so positively of their achievements during the last decade of war, Afghanistan is still considered to be vulnerable.

As President Obama had promised to his nation during his campaign of 2008 election, America has scheduled to get its army out of the battle ground by the end of 2014. But the challenges in Afghanistan still remain tough.

Abbas Ali Sultani is the permanent writer of Daily Outlook Afghanistan and an Undergraduate Student in American University of Afghanistan. Your opinions are welcomed at ali.ccna@hotmail.com.

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