Daniel Greenfield has an interesting argument that Afghanistan as a country did not exist before the West politically constructed it, and what here has been there, as in Africa, are groups of tribes, and commitment to the tribal order comes before any notion of nation. The United States could not grasp, that being brainwashed by modernist concepts such as equality, that there are no racial differences and the like. As well, Greenfield argues, they could not understand the social dynamics of the region. Worse, the West wants to make everyone on the planet like themselves, when in fact this is not possible, that the ideas and modes of living of the West in many respects cannot be maintained in places like Afghanistan. Things will go back to how they were before the Americans intervened. It is just the natural order.
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