Newsgroup: it.politica.polo
Titolo: Una 'liberazione' fatta di massacri e stupri

What will the Northern Alliance do in our name now? I dread to think...
'Why do we always have this ambiguous, dangerous relationship with our
allies?'
Independent Digital (UK), November 14, 2001
It wasn't meant to be like this. The nice, friendly Northern Alliance, our
very own foot-soldiers in Afghanistan, is in Kabul. It promised - didn't
it? - not to enter the Afghan capital. It was supposed to capture, at most,
Mazar-i-Sharif and perhaps Herat, to demonstrate the weakness of the
Taliban, to show the West that its war aims - the destruction of the Taliban
and thus of Osama bin Laden's al-Qa'ida movement - were inevitable.
The corpse of the old man in the centre of Kabul, executed by our heroes in
the Alliance, was not supposed to be on television. Only two days ago,
Alastair Campbell's 24-hour Washington-London-Islamabad "communication
centre'' was supposed to counter Taliban propaganda. Now Mr Campbell must
set up his team of propagandists in Kabul to fight the lies of our very own
foot-soldiers of the Northern Alliance.
Was it not the US Secretary of State Colin Powell who assured General
Musharraf of Pakistan the Alliance would be kept under control, that the
United Nations' envoy, Lakhdar Ibrahimi, would be allowed to construct a
truly representative government in Kabul to replace the Taliban?
General Musharraf had promised his support to the United States - at the
risk of his nation and his life - in return for American promises that
Afghanistan would be governed by a truly representative coalition.
Pakistan's air bases, its very support for the "war on terrorism'', was
contingent on Washington's word that the Northern Alliance would not take
over Kabul and impose its own diktat on Afghanistan.
Yesterday, the pictures from Kabul were almost identical to the videotapes
of April 1992 when the pro-Russians and Communists were defeated. We saw the
same jubilation by the non-Pushtu population. And within two days, Hekmatyar
Gulbeddin began to bomb the city. The division of ethnic groups plunged the
Afghan capital into civil war. Yesterday, the Alliance was supposed to wait
on the outskirts of the city while the Americans attempted to construct a
workable coalition. But for the present, Afghanistan - without the Taliban -
is a country without a government.
What on earth is going on? And what, for that matter, has happened to Mr bin
Laden? Are we driving him into the mountains - always supposing he is not
already there - or are we pushing him into the tribal areas of the
North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan? For without a city, the Taliban
themselves will melt back into their birthplace, the madrassa schools along
the Pakistan border which created the puritan, obscurantist spirit which has
inspired the rulers of Afghanistan these past five years.
The Northern Alliance is advancing, meanwhile, with all its baggage of
massacres and looting and rape intact. We have so idolised these gunmen,
been so infatuated with them, supported them so unquestioningly, pictured
them on television so deferentially that we are now immune to their history.
So, perhaps, are they.
General Rashid Dostum, our hero now that he has recaptured Mazar-i-Sharif,
is in the habit of punishing his soldiers by tying them to tank tracks and
then driving the tanks around his barracks' square to turn them into
mincemeat. You wouldn't have thought this, would you, when you heard the
jubilant reports of General Dostum's victory on Monday night?
Nor would you have thought, listening to the reports from Afghanistan
yesterday, that the Northern Alliance was responsible for more than 80 per
cent of the drug exports from the country in the aftermath of the Taliban's
prohibition of drug cultivation. I have a ghostly memory of writing this
story before, not about the Taliban but about the KLA in Kosovo, a guerrilla
army which was partly funded by drugs and which, once its political
aspirations had been met by Nato's occupation of the Serbian province went
on to become "terrorists'' (our former Foreign Secretary's memorable
description) inside Macedonia. True, Nato's wheel of fortune moves in
mysterious ways but it's not difficult to understand how our allies -
praised rather than controlled - follow their own agenda.
Why, I wonder, do we always have this ambiguous, dangerous relationship with
our allies? For decades, we accepted the received wisdom that the "B"
specials were a vital security arm of the Northern Ireland authorities on
the grounds that they "knew the territory" - just as, I fear, we rely upon
the Northern Alliance because it "knows the land".
The Israelis relied upon their Phalangist militia thugs in Lebanon because
the Christian Maronites hated the Palestinians. The Nazis approved of their
Croatian Ustashi murderers in 1941 because the Ustashi hated the Serbs.
Is this, I ask myself, why the Northern Alliance is our friend? Not because
it is a loyal ally but because it hates the Taliban? Not because it opposes
poverty and destitution and the destruction of Afghanistan under an Islamic
regime but because it says it loathes Osama bin Laden?
There are brave men in the Alliance, true. Its murdered leader, Ahmed Shah
Massoud, was an honourable man. It's not difficult to turn our allies into
heroes.
But it remains a fact that from 1992 to 1996, the Northern Alliance was a
symbol of massacre, systematic rape and pillage. Which is why we - and I
include the US State Department - welcomed the Taliban when they arrived in
Kabul. The Northern Alliance left the city in 1996 with 50,000 dead behind
it. Now its members are our foot soldiers. Better than Mr bin Laden, to be
sure. But what - in God's name- are they going to do in our name?
--
Il liberismo è l'ideologia rovesciata del monopolio monetario e finanziario
che l'America impone sul resto del mondo. Comprate quello che volete, basta
che lo paghiate in dollari. Fate tutti i debiti che volete, basta che li
contraete presso una banca americana e che siano dominati in dollari.
Investite nell'industria che vi pare, basta che sia quotata a Wall Street.

 Investite nell'industria che vi pare, basta che sia quotata a Wall Street.
************
Tu stai male.
Curati
GG
-- 
Posted from 
a-pi6-71.tin.it
 [212.216.212.134] 
via Mailgate.ORG Server - 
http://www.Mailgate.ORG

GG
Ah, ecco l' idiota che riappare col suo piů famoso nicktroll.
Non ha bisogno di curarsi č un idiota dotato naturalmente.

 Curati
Stai solo parlando di rizoma, il guaio clinico di it.politica.
Limitati pure ad ignorarlo.

 ha scritto nel messaggio
news:9t0q59$2gc$1...@fe2.cs.interbusiness.it...

stai zitto fascio.


 ha scritto nel messaggio
news:s5q7vtchkivbe153r...@4ax.com...

Ehi smanettones sei ancora lě che rosichi per le figure di merda che ho
fatto fare a te e ai tuoi amichetti camerati? Prendi un pň di valium pezzo
d'imbecille.



E tua mamma come pensi che stia ad avere un figlio come te? Per questo poi,
delusa dalla vita, beve e finisce per darla a tutti.


 ha scritto nel messaggio
news:1YQI7.99184$sq5.4...@news.infostrada.it...


> Il liberismo č l'ideologia rovesciata del monopolio monetario e



Ti è venuto a trovare? :)

 Vanni Bombonato
E che cazzo è l'alleanza del nord? Gli afghani che bombarderete
quest'altr'anno dicendoci quanto sono cattivi?

 Sta bene dov'è, in una clinica di igiene mentale.
Anche tua madre sta bene dov'è (sul mio cazzo).