Here we go.
Most big heads of NA got sidelined out of the electoral process, by the people.This is just propaganda that NA has taken over the Afghan government.
Not true.
While it may seem that the Northern Alliance itself has been dissolved, doesn't exist. And only very few people in Kabul still associate themselves with it. But I'm talking about the political mafia that was formed with the Northern alliance, that includes former members who joined political parties, war lords that the NA fought along side in the 90's and also drug lords that also hold an allegiance to them.
It's best not to comment so assertively when you clearly overlook some very prominent people in Kabul.
Take Marshal Fahim, a war lord who fought in the civil war alongside the NA, today he is a former-Vice president and former defence minister, Karim Khalili was a member of the WPP, it was him who first rang the alarm bell about the taliban after which the NA was former, now he himself doesn't claim to be part of the NA anywhere, but he clearly was since the very beginning, today.. he is current vice president. Abdullah Abdullah, very high up in the NA, after the invasion, he suddenly showed up in Kabul wearing a suit, assumed power granted to him by the united states, he is former foreign minister. Yunis Qanooni became speaker of the house, he was part of the NA. Ahmad Zia Masooud brother of Ahmad Shah Massoud who is an undeniable leader of the NA later became vice president. Dostum, who aided the Northern alliance fought alongside also ran but came 3rd or 4th.
Wanna hear more? The United national front with leaders like Dostum, Fahim and Qanooni are in the opposition. However, their role in the opposition is support of the Karzai regime.
These people have become parliamentarians, ministers, ambassadors.. you name it.
I can go on much further with many more names.
Some people in the real opposition like malalai joya have claimed that the political mafia has often tried to pass bills that would grant them immunity to prosecution for war crimes committed in the past. And those bills past with an overwhelming majority, solely because they hold a vast majority of the seats.
If the army has NA elements, why not? If the other side of the coin did not join the army whose fault is it? Most NA strongmen support Karzai(despite him being a Pashtun) because they know they cannot win the Presidency themselves.
What's wrong with it? Do you have any understanding of the issue in Afghanistan and it's history?
The NA were a combatant in the civil war, responsible for heinous war crimes against the majority ethnic group.
If they run the new Afghan NATIONAL army and if one major ethnic group doesn't like them, they are bound to fail.
This is why in the ANA, Tajik and others are overrepresented and Pashtun under represented.
The NA have very little support in areas out of Kabul and the North, and their supporters are the minority.
This is yet another recipe for civil war. The US made a big mistake, while trying to oust one menace they empowered another one, and now have no choice but to embrace it's rule.
Only Pakistan and ISI keep pushing the BS that Taliban are Pashtun, while even Taliban claim that they are a pan-Islamic movement, not surprising when you see so many foreign militants among their ranks that Pakistan and Afghanistan complain about. The Uzbekhs and Arabs among the militants do not support Taliban because they are Pashtun. Only deranged brains like IK(Taliban Khan) eat their agencies' propaganda and call Taliban as the Pashtun voice.
Here we go again! Why is it do you think that the US has been unsuccessful in it's ventures in Pashtun majority areas particularly in Southern Afghanistan? The taliban have support there, from the locals. No ISI BS that you folks keep talking about. The taliban were created in this region, and they were created at the time where there was chaos and the minority held Kabul, today the same is true, the NA + allies hold Kabul and Afghanistan is still at war.
Why not give the control of KP to Pakistani Taliban and expect Afghanistan to follow suit with their Afghan Taliban? The similarity is striking. Neither Taliban won any election.
Because there is no cause for them here. The land hasn't been invaded, only left to it's own devices, they have very little support outside of North Waziristan. Plus, their cause has been trying model the taliban of Afghanistan, when in fact, the Afghan taliban continue to distance themselves from them. In Afghanistan, the cause is home grown. I reckon had the US have made it fair after 2001, made a real democratic process, the Afghan taliban would be weaker today.
So please stop BSing and denying it. We all know a political mafia has reigned since 2001 and all optomism of the democratic process people has back in 2001-2003 has been lost thanks to same old faces ruling Kabul, criminals and murders, rife corruption and still at war.