...apparently for meeting with the Taleban. On Christmas Day the Afghan government said it was expelling two high level diplomats, one a British UN political affairs expert, the other, an Irishman and the acting head of the European Union mission. Both men were expelled on 27 December and with them, as one of their colleagues said, went "half the international community's combined knowledge on Afghanistan". They are hugely respected, but according to President Karzai's spokesman Hamayun Hamidzada, they were up to no good. "The government of Afghanistan had received reports that the two individuals were involved in activities that were not consistent with their original jobs and they were engaged in unauthorised activities," he told a news conference. "As a result the Afghan government expelled the two from Afghanistan and this sends a message that the Afghan government is watching everyone and any unauthorised activity, no matter it comes from wherever, will be stopped." "Unauthorised activity" hints at what Afghan secret service agents are saying privately. They point the finger squarely at Michael Semple for running an extensive network of Taleban contacts: "For arrogantly behaving like a Great Game era political officer", they say. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7171205.stm Semple has now moved to Pakistan with his family.
Afghanistan is a backwater with backward people . Karzai is an expensive option they may as well return Afghans to their medieval beliefs . No one cares .
I do care and I'm sure many others do, too. Using the word backward to describe a whole nation is also not a modest option. We see what advanced people are doing to our world and its environment, so God bless the backwards!!
Zionism and Islam are backward ideologies , fires don't cross oceans ideas do , and this region has a penchant for inflicting their beliefs on others . The sooner we stifle up Israel and the mid east the better for all of us .
Foley, your remaks are getting more and more nonesense. You call a nation backward and then continue with attacking ideologies to contribute to your idea. Zionism is for sure not a natural being in the Mid-East, it is a parasite forced by the ONWARD people on the Mid-Easterners to guarantee their interests, and will soon or late be finished off, either internally or externally. But stifling up the Middle East is not as easy as you may believe if you know a bit of history. Middle East is the oldest cradle of human history, culture and civilization. Its end would mean the end of humanity.
I'm absolutely fed up with the entire situation , I am completely dejected that the Mid East has not co-operated with each other to resist economic predators , the nations have simply like Saudi Arabia allowed themselves to become assets . I am disappointed the mid east has not cohered together like the Europeans under the Nazis to resist occupation . The Mid East only have Quislings as in Afghanistan and Iraq . I only care about the Palestinians and their welfare may God have mercy on them and protect them , because no one else cares about them .
The main difference between Europe and Mid-East is the system of governing. Europe was and is a semi-democratic community where people's voices are heard and the politicans more or less have to respect the public opinion, if the same was true with the Middle East, the situation would be totally different. No foreign intereference, cuop d'etats, and invasions would be allowed and a unified community was easily formed to defend the region against the blood thirsty capitalists. Such efforts were made previously, but foiled by secret circles who immediately overthrow the ones in power. That's why I never believe that the US and even the Europeans really want democracy for the Middle- East. Democracy would cut the flow of cheap resources to the West and would make it difficult for them to manipulate with the people's fates in this region at least.
More bureaucratic bullshit, except this time, (and most of the other times) it hurts the overall effort.
The difference is that Europe has never been colonized by outsiders for the purpose of being exploited . The Asiatic Huns failed in their attempt to conquer Europe , so did the Arab armies and so did the Mongols even the Turks failed . The system of wealth is and has always been based in Europe since the times of the Roman Empire . Wealth is what keeps regions colonized, the ability to finance . The mantle passed to America after WWII now it is going back to a unified Europe . There is just no cohesion amongst the people of the region , Lebanese and Syrians see themselves as more Western people and identify as being white . The Turks see themselves as European , the Iranians believe themselves to be Aryans akin to the Germans . And Western Imperialists take advantage of this and exploit it . Just take the Jews of Israel , they would enthusiastically drop an A-Bomb on any of those Arab nations for the West , yet it was the West which hated them so much that we put them into gas chambers and incinerated them . The Middle East has been an economic colony of Europe since Alexander the Greats conquest the Romans came after them then the Byzantines who in turn gave way to the Crusaders an event which finally colonized the mid east . Democracy in the Mid East would mean a Chavez of Venezuela attempt to socialize the regions resources . Western style Democracy in Dubai exists because their is no chance of and socialization .
