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Originally Posted by Two Bills
My father was a British soldier in the 1920's, and was stationed in India and Afganistan.
The only thing he ever told me was that the Afgans only stopped fighting each other, to have a pop at the local British garrison.
He also said it was the most beautiful country he ever saw.
The saying about the people was, "You can buy an Afgan, but you will never own one!"
Not much has changed, and given our history in the place, I was truly surprised our government ever put troops back into the country.
But who looks at, or takes notice of history books any more?
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I love this perspective as that area of the world is resource poor for international trade and production. But the religion and the political system are the same, which makes for an ideology leadership, different from the western world of former british empire break aways and western europe.
As an ideological lead state, it carries the sins of 2,000 years with them everywhere they go. They want to fit in, but have the ideology stuck in their way. . . so they rule by power and struggle for power throughout the region. . . as they have ideology stuck in their way with the sins of 2,000 years. . .
a game or war which can't be won by humans as humans have the memories. . .