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Afghanistan
Brac engineer gunned down in Afghanistan
2006-01-04
Gunmen shot dead a Bangladeshi aid worker Monday after his prayers at a mosque in volatile southern Afghanistan, a provincial official said yesterday. Mir Wais was gunned down Monday in Lashkargah, the capital of insurgency-hit Helmand province, deputy governor Moheedin Khan said.

The victim was an engineer with the Brac (Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee), which builds schools, roads and clinics in rural areas of the poverty-stricken country.
There's no schools or roads left to be built in B'desh?
Details about the dead could not be known. The Afghan interior ministry said the area had been sealed off by intelligence agents and the police. No one claimed responsibility for the attack but similar killings in the past have been blamed on remnants of the hardline Islamic Taliban regime. In April, three women linked to the same organisation were found stoned to death in the northern province of Baghlan with a letter written by another Islamic militant group.
Posted by:Fred

#6  I agree with TW: Some of the "implied" demands of people are totally unrealistic, like demanding that an infant eat steak and potatoes.

A key requirement in the transition to democracy requires that a cultural group give up the belief that they should shoot it out with other cultural groups (or subgroups within their culture) to get what they want. In such a culture, violence solves everything and makes the system unstable. The opposite problem is current day liberal post-modernism, where it is believed that one NEVER shoots it out with ANYONE, period. In such a culture, represented by the EU, compromise and politicking solves everything, and makes the system VUNERABLE to groups willing to use violence.

Both are extremes, and thus simplistic. The golden mean is to be striven for here, in which compromise is MOSTLY resorted to where practical, and the use of violence (governmental AND personal) is directed to protect the citizenry (individual and national). Exemplars are Australia, the US, Mexico, Israel, and most of the Asian tigers.
Posted by: Ptah   2006-01-04 09:36  

#5  I guess the Afghans must be pretty pissed about us pulling out and closing down bases.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-01-04 08:33  

#4  As ye sow, so shall ye reap. We are not ready for an active war against the entire Moslem world, CaziFarkus. The measures you've repeatedly advocated here would guarantee us that war post-haste, and the U.S. would have to fight it alone. Afghanistan may be, as you are so fond of saying, a dog's breakfast, but never has that breakfast been as tasty and healthy for the dog as it is now. Bottom line, Afghanistan has not ever been a united, peaceful nation in it's entire history. It has always been a conglomeration of tribes and subtribes jockeying for advantange, mostly violently.... although historically the tribesmen had rifles rather than AK-47's and grenades. That the Afghanis are participating enthusiatically in the democratic process, that schools and roads are considered desirable and are being built faster than they're being destroyed, and that the Afghanis are beginning to think beyond the local strong man to identify themselves as a nation, these are major developments. It is not reasonable to demand that Afghanistan turn immediately into America-lite -- especially those bits bordering Pakistan, where the ISI continues to meddle in what Pakistan has always considered its private hinterland.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-01-04 07:38  

#3  Yeah, we are wheel spinning in the Afghan dog's breakfast. And oil production in Iraq has been reduced to almost one-third of the pre-war levels, and one-half of the late 2003 level.
Reuters article

Why? Occupied peoples face no collective response when they facilitate assassination, bomb planting, ambushes and suicide massacre. If we sow indulgence of those savages, we will reap license.

At less than 1 million barrels per day of Iraq oil production, nation-building is impossible. How about we try nation-destruction, including the bloody liquidation of Iraq Islamofascists as a class and an Iraq without mosques? Respect for the freedom of religion for Muslims, is a suicide pill for the West. The West has done well with about 1400 years without that Middle East poison. They can do without it too.
Posted by: CaziFarkus   2006-01-04 02:02  

#2  Allah gives extra virgins to those who murder in mosques.
Posted by: ed   2006-01-04 00:16  

#1  caught skimping on the extraneous flyash, I'd wager
Posted by: Frank G   2006-01-04 00:12  

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