Afghanistan Today Is One Of The Most Violent And Unstable

The Taliban are an Islamic political movement. They ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. When they took over, several new laws, rules, and restrictions were made.

For over 2 centuries, Afghanistan has known virtually no time without war. Beginning around 326 B.C. with the conquests of Alexander the Great, to the Persians, British, Russians and most recently, America and our NATO allies, Afghanistan has been cultivated into the country that it is today through a trial by fire. Regardless of this relentless onslaught of foreign military power, the Afghan people have tirelessly defended their homeland with no outside power ever being able to subdue them completely. Following the withdrawal of the Soviet Union in 1989, the country fell into civil war, torn even further apart by fiercely dedicated tribal warlords. This power vacuum led to the rise of a group called the Taliban. Led by a one eyed man

As America find herself in today’s “War on Terrorism,” one can easily find a number of similarities between today’s situation and the war in Vietnam. As the Taliban steadily loses control and power over Afghanistan, it becomes exceedingly important to discuss potential replacement governments. Afghanistan is, like Vietnam in the 50’s and 60’s, a very volatile country full of a variety of people speaking different dialects and practicing different religions. It is very important, then, that the government that is installed is one that is capable of maintaining some type of control or authority over its diverse people.

“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.

In The documentary Opium Brides shows the inequality in the system and the weakness of the sovereign in the Afghanistan. Because the authorities are corrupt and the poverty is extremely. The poor people become slaves of the Taliban who decide who the poor people have to live. The documentary also shows the intervention the CIA who works in order to prevent the exportation the opium to U.S from the Pakistan. Thus documentary shows how the inequality in the race is important in the society. It is possible to see how the Taliban control people’s lives in Afghanistan; especially the poor people who deal with a weak economy for survive. The Taliban gives these poor people to choose cultivate drugs and life or death because the government does

The Taliban has been fighting the righteous fight to reclaim Afghanistan since the American 's unlawful invasion of 2001. Opposition to the United States and the current Afghan Ghani

As early as the summer of 2002, the Taliban had initiated a small-scale offensive to overthrow Karzai’s government and coerce the withdrawal of U.S. and coalition forces, with the support of other anti-government force. By late 2003/early 2004, such violent efforts escalated into a low-level insurgency in rural areas of the east and south: The

Though the Taliban and Russians are responsible for a large portion of the violence, the major causes of the violence is what starts everything. In this case a political change can spark a major fire that had been smoldering for many and many of years. “The street toward war started in 1973 when Mohammed

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

Although the Taliban’s territory is distinctly Afghanistan, their Pakistani foundation resonates throughout much of their history and structure as an international support and through their ties with the Al-Qaeda. Their Afghan origins and influence began in 1994 in Southern Afghanistan following the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan as a counter to the pro-communist government. From their onset in Southern Afghanistan, the Taliban acquired a great deal of power and influence. Through armed force and following the ousting of the pro-communist President Mohammad Najibullah by the Mujahedeen forces, the Taliban successfully took Kabul in 1996. Their political success manifested in them forming a government from September 1996 to December 2001. They maintained this control and power, despite international condemnation on human rights’ grounds. In fact, by 1998 they controlled around 90% of Afghanistan (Yung, 2007). However, their influence was not enough to capture the north-western part of Afghanistan, which remained in the hands of the Northern Alliance. The Taliban enjoyed a great rise of power in the early stages of the organization and throughout this decade of control their structures and objectives evolved with some success. Around the early 2000s and the attacks of September

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

Afghanistan is currently one of the most food-insecure countries in the world with approximately one third of the country being undernourished. After three decades of civil war, political unrest and multiple natural disasters Afghanistan has far to go before attain food security. In addition to the ten million people that are food insecure a further fourteen percent are borderline food-insecure. The main cause of this is the prevention of humanitarian aid and intervention by military forces, insurgents and natural blocking as a result of natural disasters. One of the main causes food insecurity is the weather sensitivity of agriculture in Afghanistan. Regardless of government efforts to build dams, drainage systems and irrigation systems the

Afghanistan is not a country that is a victim of transnational issues, simply because, the country is and has been the cause for many of the issues the world has faced for many years. To say that this country is a failed state is an understatement; a lawless country caught up in war for nearly a decade has been the framework for transnational issues that continue to cause problems for the Central Asian region. The issues politicians and leaders around the world face with Afghanistan on transnational crime and narcotics is the fact that their goal for trafficking narcotic is purely to fund their terrorist operations. Militancy, smuggling, narcotics trafficking, arms transfer, and religious ideologies deployed against other nations are of extreme concern (Reyes & Dinar, 2015). The challenges presented are considered the most vital in terms of the threats they pose to the country and the population.

Afghanistan has been a country filled with violence for over 30 years. Today, most of the media covers only the progress in rebuilding the country. There have been some improvements in Afghanistan, however, the war crimes, and the human rights abuses haven’t received as much attention. The Soviet Union, the United states, the Taliban and Pakistani ISI have been the culprits of the war crimes in Afghanistan. .

Since the new government focuses of Peace, security, literacy and democracy, a dramatic change appears, however the foot prints of the long run war still appears. Such immoral acts are taken place where there is no control of government. The Afghan government should make a system to educate people in not even the city but districts too. Such cases will get more into practice if government doesn’t apply any specific system to reduce such acts. Its more often an executives’ responsibility to set law and a legislative ast is required. Creating more of Educational institutes and organize welfare trainings in districts will tend to stop criminal acts in Afghanistan (Haidari,