Afghan Women’s Struggle Continues: An Interview with RAWA's Sahar Saba

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

This is an interview posted at Muslim Wake Up!

http://www.muslimwakeup.com/mainarchive/000881.php#more

If one wonders how the Afghani people view the US, I think Sahar's answer to the question of how Afghanis see the US today is telling:

Well, in the beginning there was different kind of reaction. People were deceived because they were really tired of the Taliban and all the miseries, the restrictions, the terrible life they had under the Taliban. So people thought maybe there will be change with the US intervention in Afghanistan but now after these two years they saw that United States has failed in all its claims and promises and nothing has really changed. The reaction of people now is really more and more against the United States. The reaction is of course different from that of the Iraqis. what people really today is how to survive, how to feed their families. If you talk to people, they say we don’t care if there is US or someone else because we want food, we want shelter, we want our children not to die of very simple diseases.

So as long as the United States remains in Afghanistan and there are all these failures, not fulfilling the promises that they made to the Afghan people, there will certainly be a different kind of reaction because Afghans have a history of opposing foreigners and not really accept them. see them as occupiers or invaders than there will be no way for the United States to continue .



And freepers say that liberals are always saying what is wrong with the US-could it be because there IS a lot wrong with US foreign policy?