Dealing With The Culture-less

Two US officers were shot dead inside the interior ministry in Kabul, by a coward. He was motivated it seems by the burning of old Koran's by US forces, which has led to wild rantings on the streets by mobs outraged by the action.The fact that it is of no consequence whatsoever hasn't and couldn't occur to these people because they are and there is no way round this, stupid.

They are stupid because they refuse to develop a culture of their own. The nearest thing they have is tribal loyalty and a tradition of killing people. The reaction is as if some old lady has died and the house clearance people have destroyed anything they didn't want, but would have been precious to the old lady. It isn't to them though and that is the point.

Afghans deliberately seek to take offence at imagined sleights because their leaders know how supine will be the idiotic response of Western governments. Burning someone's holy book in front of them in a malicious fashion is a terrible deed. Burning a Koran (or Bible) as part of a clearing up operation is irrelevant. If it isn't your religion, it just doesn't mean anything to you. I am sure that Muslims would not care about burning Bibles and that can be understood.

This action against such a non-event is proof positive that we are wrong about Afghanistan. The problem wasn't that Al Queda were there, it was that Al Queda will always be there, because culturally the people are backward and unable to connect with other cultures. They don't have to be like Westerners, they just have to have systems and processes based on logic and rationality. They are still some way off that.

The reaction of the British is to withdraw civilian advisers from ministries in Kabul. How about we do the same for our troops, who regularly face such danger? Our forces are facing, not an implacable enemy but an unfathomable one. These Afghan hordes are cowardly in the extreme, siding with whichever force is closest and betraying any one showing weakness, such as a compassionate Western soldier.

Pull our troops out; they are pointless in assisting the Afghan people (though helping the powerful and corrupt no end) and are being killed and maimed for no reason. None at all. The Renaissance is some hundreds of years off from such culture-less lands.