Transitioning To Afghanistan

Farah Ahmedi was a woman who wanted to cross the border into Pakistan from Afghanistan. The story “The Other Side of The Sky,” elaborates on this statement by describing Farah Ahmedi’s life, the author states, “Their only hope was to escape to Pakistan”(para. 3). This quote explains that Farah Ahmedi did not want to leave the country out of her own choice, it was a necessary decision. Her country was war-torn, so she and her mom had no choice. After the very difficult and treacherous journey to cross the border through the mountains on the border, and four years in Pakistan, Farah and her mother were finally chosen to come to America. A quote from an interview with Farah elaborates on this statement by stating, “After four years of hardship [in Pakistan] she and her mother are chosen to come to America.” (authorlink 4). Just because Farah and her mother got out of Afghanistan, didn’t mean that the hardship was over. She had lost all of her family

The reason behind my parent’s motivation which lead them to come to Canada was because they wanted to have a good life and so they could practice their religion freely. In Pakistan, there were too many life threats which is why they wanted to leave the country as soon as possible.

In 2011, 24-year-old Joe DeNenno traveled to Afghanistan with the intent to change the lives of the children in the Zhari District. He teamed up with the local security forces and government officials to build new schools throughout the district to improve the education for local children. One billion dollars went towards the funding of schools and rise of education in Afghanistan. But nearly four years later, one would not be able to see a difference between the schools and a town that's been hit by a category 3 hurricane. From leaky roofs to cut up doors, the schools were no longer a place for education but rather a place for warlords to inhabit. Over 50 American funded schools were now battlefield provinces. These runned down schools were

In this book, Schroen gives his straightforward perspective on his role leading the Northern Afghanistan Liaison Team (NALT) from mid-September to the end of October 2001. Schroen gives a detailed account of the CIA’s infiltration into northeast Afghanistan to support the Northern Alliance (NA) campaign against the Taliban and foreign Arab forces around Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif. Having worked with Afghan rebels during the Soviet occupation, Schroen was well familiar with the terrain and geography, and also with several of the NA functionaries with whom he would work.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran, is a Washington Post reporter and editor. He has spent three years in Afghanistan and reported extensively about the operations conducted by the ISAF and NATO forces in the post troop’s surge period. He is also the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City: inside Iraq’s Green Zone, one of the New York Times’s 10 best books of year 2007. Interestingly the author was a guest speaker at the USAWC and presented his thoughts to the students of class of AY 14. His talk at the USAWC and relevance of situation in Afghanistan to Pakistan prompted me to select his book “Little America” for writing the critical book report.

Empowering Girls with Education, in Afghanistan and United States In comparing and contrasting the United States and Afghanistan, make note that both countries are part of the United Nations. In size, Afghanistan is comparable to the size of Texas, and the United States is fifteen times larger. The United States’ Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is $17.9 trillion (per Capita = $55,837) which is the highest GDP in the world.

The reconstruction in America after the Civil War was very similar to the reconstruction in Afghanistan after the Operation Enduring Freedom. Both countries had huge amounts of destruction and obstacles to overcome after each of their wars. There are many similarities between the reconstructions in America and Afghanistan. They had problems with the government, economy, security, and the destruction.

The iconic American sitcom Seinfeld has this episode where George Costanza, the show’s lovable loser, mopes to friend Jerry Seinfeld: “My life is the opposite of everything I want it to be. Every instinct I have..it 's all been wrong.” Jerry deadpans back, “If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.” Washington will eventually have its own George Costanza moment on Afghanistan, and the futility of an open-ended war. The only question is how many more dead soldiers and civilians will it take to have this epiphany.

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

Answer: My move was completely voluntary as I seized the opportunity to do so. I find it difficult for a Pakistani to be involuntarily moved considering the distance from the United States and the impracticality of it in general as far as cost and reasoning.

The war started in Kabul, Afghanistan in July of 1994; moving to Russia was the only choice for my family to be safe even though we knew we would face a lot of difficulties. I was only

Due to past events, the Afghan government is now struggling to keep up with their citizens’ problems with living there. Bombing, wars, harassment, feminism, and abuse have been some of the main topics of bad events in the last few years in Afghanistan. Dystopia is a society that can be characterized with extreme hunger, poverty, misery, and the imbalance among the people; the Taliban taking over was the cause of how Afghanistan is still dystopian today. When one analyzes Ashraf Ghani’s choice to allow the Taliban to form, and the impacts the Taliban are still having on the people, one can realize how important genres of literature can be to educate the world about this dystopian

“There’s nostalgia these days for that bygone era, [when Zahir Shah was in power] given the growing number of bombings and battles that are likely to make this year [2007] the bloodiest year since 2001,” (Nelson). During the 1973 Coup, Daoud Khan took power from King Zahir Shah. Although Khan made many promises to the Afghan people, the citizens of Afghanistan had more political and basic human rights when King Shah was in power.

All my life I wanted to join the army, go through physical training, be deployed, stationed overseas— an honor to serve my country. But I've never thought I'd get sent to an actual hot spot, much less to Pakistan. I guess some people are just not cut out to be soldiers.

(Hood, 2005) discussed the Soviets Union invasion of Afghanistan and the U.S invasion. It is important to understand historical events to make meaning of things in the contemporary world. In December 1979, it was a great turning point in Afghanistan history when the national intensity level rose to important, at that time, the Soviet troops crossed the Afghan Muslims country at this point in time Afghanistan was suffering from a civil war. The people needed a change (revolution). Hafizullah Amin who studies at Columbia University in New York and prime minister at the time wanted a more western form of government and social construction for the Afghan people, while most Muslims leaders detest Amin ideology of introducing western way of life