jamahir
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Let's see if ANA manages to evict Taliban and its regressive ideology.
Sadly, I think the Taliban is going to rule, either by forming an exclusive government like in the 1990s or by being a major element in the current government. NATO is leaving the country knowing this fully.
It would've been better if US hadn't intervened in the 80s and allowed Soviets to install a communist government @jamahir .
Well, when the USSR came into Afghanistan the country was already being governed by socialism. The country was called Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
Secondly, NATO / USA intervened in Afghanistan because the country was being governed by socialism. Any socialist country, especially a Muslim-majority one, is always a target for NATO intervention. This is what in 2011 happened in Libya and Syria. Or in Iraq in 2003.
For once, I agree that communism might've been better for Afghanistan. The other 'stans' of Central Asia were doing quite good under Soviet Union and are still doing good now that they are independent.
Agreed. In the 1980s, Afghanistan under socialist governance sent a cosmonaut - Abdul Ahad Mohmand - to the Soviet space station Mir. He even won the Hero of the Soviet Union award for putting out a fire in the space station. The women of the country, at least in the cities, were free too.
Of course, democracy is better than communism but communism is any day better over regressive theocracy.
True Communism is supposed to bring True Democracy through one of its aims where the State dissolves and the people begin ruling themselves, without any party or the Western-style parliament. Such a political system existed in Libya until 2011 and has been adapted in Venezuela by the followers of Hugo Chavez. Please read this my post where I describe in simple words how that political system works and also there is the interview of a Venezuelan activist who is participating in the implementation of the system.