Order From Chaos
10-06-2004, 00:12
3 questions
1) Whats your opinion of has it got better or worse (from the media)
2) has it actually got better or worse
3) whats its future likley to be?
My answers
1) From news along it looks like things have calmed down, no large number or major figure had been assassinated recently for example
2) Harder to judge, people are still being killed both in anti terrorist operation and in warlord clashes, but then they occurred before the invasion. In theory at least most people have far more civil rights now, but wheatear they have the confidence to actually act them out is questionable. How much the 'new' Afghanistan actually means something outside of Kabul.
3) its future is a far more difficult question and I going to answer it in two parts
a) militratary anti terrorist operations, well on the al-queda front they now cannot act in the open and so have been forced to move their operation else where or indeed suspend them. However major figure have not been found and undoubtedly significant numbers of people who oppose the new regime remain. If the US and other allies maintain the campaign for long enough it should be effective, but wheatear they have the national will to do so i don't know.
domestic, well some aspects are undoubtedly looking better, the country is now free to trade with the rest of the world and has had a large amount of aid invested in the country. Their are still problems on this front in their are still a lot of refugees and a lot of starving people. Their is also the problem of people growing drugs to sell them (sensible action from their point of view). Other problems exist in how much control the new government has particularly outside Kabul, if foreign troops remain then i suspect the government will hold on, keep it going for long enough and it should be able to slowly take control of the rest of the country. I suppose in conclusion, at the very least Afghanistan can now actually develop as opposed to being held in place under the taliban.
1) Whats your opinion of has it got better or worse (from the media)
2) has it actually got better or worse
3) whats its future likley to be?
My answers
1) From news along it looks like things have calmed down, no large number or major figure had been assassinated recently for example
2) Harder to judge, people are still being killed both in anti terrorist operation and in warlord clashes, but then they occurred before the invasion. In theory at least most people have far more civil rights now, but wheatear they have the confidence to actually act them out is questionable. How much the 'new' Afghanistan actually means something outside of Kabul.
3) its future is a far more difficult question and I going to answer it in two parts
a) militratary anti terrorist operations, well on the al-queda front they now cannot act in the open and so have been forced to move their operation else where or indeed suspend them. However major figure have not been found and undoubtedly significant numbers of people who oppose the new regime remain. If the US and other allies maintain the campaign for long enough it should be effective, but wheatear they have the national will to do so i don't know.
domestic, well some aspects are undoubtedly looking better, the country is now free to trade with the rest of the world and has had a large amount of aid invested in the country. Their are still problems on this front in their are still a lot of refugees and a lot of starving people. Their is also the problem of people growing drugs to sell them (sensible action from their point of view). Other problems exist in how much control the new government has particularly outside Kabul, if foreign troops remain then i suspect the government will hold on, keep it going for long enough and it should be able to slowly take control of the rest of the country. I suppose in conclusion, at the very least Afghanistan can now actually develop as opposed to being held in place under the taliban.