Afghanistan Of The Soviet Union

Problems that the Taliban have caused, in real life, have impacted the way that many innocent people in various Arab countries used to live--long ago, life was delectable to many. People lived in a state of tranquility, and could live accompanied by one word: freedom. However, later on, and not long ago, the Taliban created a set of strict, over-the top rules that have not only completely

Afghanistan’s Plummet to Ruin? The Taliban arrived in their White Hi-Luxes, beginning their rise to power by overtaking Afghans who violate their strict Islamic law, which forced Afghans to make adjustments to their norms. Throughout the lens of part one, war spreads through things that alter the way of life such as displacement, trauma, loss, and community dynamics, a prevalent theme introduced multiple times in The Forever War by Dexter Filkins. This conflict of war has become an overall force that shapes Afghani society due to their new ways of adapting to life with the Taliban.

“We lost the war in southern Afghanistan and it broke my heart.” This statement used by Graeme Smith in the introduction to his book, The Dogs are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan, sets the tone for the rest of the book. Although foreign forces had, arguably, the best of intentions going into the war, the Taliban always regrouped and reappeared, often larger and harder to defeat than before, no matter how tremendous their losses were in previous battles. International forces did what they thought was essential for rebuilding of Afghanistan, including the elimination of the Taliban through air strikes and poppy eradication, even though they did not truly understand the needs and priorities of Afghan citizens and were constantly perceived negatively by the Afghan civilians. In an accessible method, Smith provides general knowledge about how the intervention on the behalf of the international community impacted the country and its people. This book also leaves me with reflections on the dynamic between insurgents and villagers and how the international forces could have helped to prevent a power vacuum from occurring during the years where most foreign forces pulled out of Afghanistan.

Taliban was an Islamic Fundamental Political movement in Afghanistan. While they had the power of Afghanistan they had imposed strict laws which were called the Islamic laws.Taliban mostly consisted of Afghan tribal men. Soon after that Al Qaeda set of to support them. Saudi Arabia supported them financially, but Taliban use that wealth to wipe out the afghan civilians.

The Taliban in reality are horrible and the strict rules they create are too extreme for everyone. Whenever someone tries to stop it, the amount of people in the Taliban just

The Taliban is a radical islamic extremist group notorious for their brutal enforcement of strict unfair shiara law on the people of Afghanistan. Afghanistan has been a hot spot for global conflict and fighting between western countries because of the actions of the Taliban. In real life The Taliban are known to beat and harass the people of Afghanistan by enforcing very harsh "islamic" laws, which are very unfair misinterpretations of the koran. Many restrictions were forced on to the people of Afghanistan. Many things such as "TV, internet, photography, and even music were banned"(Coksie).

As I started to think about what aspect of terrorism I wanted to write a paper on, it occurred to me that I didn't really know much about the Taliban group. Which is one of the major terrorist groups in today's society. So I am going to try and explain this group the best that I can. In couple different aspects, one is what their rules are, two how they treat women, and three what types of terrorist acts they have committed. The Taliban group is a group of men who formed in 1994 in the country of Kandahar by Islamic students who took a radical approach to interpreting Islam. The Group also believes in strict Islamic rules. According to them the men must have beards four fingers in length, there shall be no music, Nintendo, and women should

With the Taliban beginning its reigns on Afghanistan, darkness took over the nation. Terror became a more common installment into the minds of the citizens. Hearing the rumble of the jeeps, the bangs of the AK-47s, and the bombs setting off can send a shiver down anyone’s back. Families are torn apart, children forget what play time is, schools are destroyed. The injustice that the Taliban brought is defined through the cruelest of actions. “There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.” (Hosseini, 1) With their regime, the Taliban established radical rules that limited the country to all but making the essential function of speaking, barely legal. The effect of the Taliban begin to spread specifically towards Amir and his family. With the beginning the war, Amir sees his

In an age when mankind has the ability to completely annihilate itself through nuclear combat, war can be a more terrifying and powerful thought than ever before. Unfortunately, because of the extent of the actions that the Taliban has committed against both America and its own followers, the United States’ war against terrorism seems to be a necessity. I do feel, however, as if there are many things that can be done by the American government in the near future to peacefully approach a more civil and politically involved Afghanistan. Although my feelings on a war against terrorism are mixed, I do feel that significant actions must be taken in order to restrict the spread of

Religion “...is a spectrum of colors; changing hues end-to-end; shifting shade at every stage” (Aguilar), writes poet Chito Aquilar as he discusses life. Interpretations of religion have a large spectrum with many extremist and conservative thoughts. On one side of the spectrum of religion, a person can use religion as their sanctuary and start new beginnings from which they will use to become a more pure human being. In the darkness of the religion spectrum, people take their beliefs to the extreme in order to achieve their goal at any cost. The Taliban are an Islamic extremist group of the Pashtun culture whom have taken their beliefs beyond the realm of morality.

When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on December 1979, the goal was to help Afghan communist forces set up a communist government. The Soviet Union felt Afghanistan had key resources and a foothold in the Middle East to spread communist ideas. The result would be a war that the Soviet Union wishes it never got involved in and likened to their “Vietnam War”, meaning winning a number of battles but not the war like what happened to the U.S. in Vietnam. The background of the war, outcome of the war, and impact on the United States are key to understanding the Soviet-Afghan War.

The Taliban are part of the reason why Afghanistan struggles so much socially because of the Taliban and this is because of their harsh rules. Women are not able to leave their homes if they are not with a male and if they do they will get beaten. Girls are not able to go to school and if the Taliban women in a school they will bomb it. Another thing that the Taliban do

The Taliban’s brutality is completely unimaginable. When the Taliban first arrived, a woman was beaten for not wearing a full chadri, though she wore modest clothing and a large headscarf. The Taliban soldiers showed no sympathy for this woman and beat her regardless of her pleas. In itself, this scene shows the Taliban’s twisted mindset: it is wrong for a woman to lack complete covering, but to beat this woman is moral and acceptable. The officials wanted her to fear breaking their rules and show that there were no exceptions; Afghans must follow the Taliban's regulations or be severely punished.

The main military goal that the Taliban set and wanted to fulfil from 1996 to 2001 was to cleanse the land religiously, and to begin the re-establishment of a state that would be Pashto dominant. More specifically, they wanted to return to the land the order of Abdur Rahman Khan, a man who had ruled as Emir of Afghanistan (military ruler of Afghanistan) from 1880 to 1901. Culturally, some of the actions and decisions made by the Taliban during its resurgence from 1996 to 2001 had a grim effect on Afghanistan as a nation, with the country becoming better known internationally for some of the acts of terrorism perpetrated by the Taliban. The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan led to a Western view of the country that was corrupted by a sole movement

The Taliban emerged in 1994 from a group of guerilla type Muslim Mujahidin that had fought in the Afghan and Soviet war and were dissatisfied and disillusioned with their current leadership. The Mujahidin’s purpose is to perform jihad, meaning to “struggle, strive, or persevere” in doing God’s will (Wikipedia, 2015).