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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (12157)11/30/2001 5:42:29 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
The idea that primitive Afghans are unsuitable for democracy is racist nonsense.

Well, it would depend. I was chatting with an Afghani friend of mine yesterday, who's mother is Tajik, and Father is Pashtun. He himself believes that after 30 years of warfare, the current generation of Afghans bear little resemblance to those who once lived there in the '60s and early '70s. He and his family left in 1979, when he was 17.

He considers current Afghanis little more than human "animals" who have known nothing but barbarity during their lives, and who have very little concept of how to participate in a democratic society. Thus, he doesn't hold out much hope that they are ready for a democratic government, but maybe in a couple of generations when the hatreds have been suppressed, and society returns to its former multi-ethnic and tolerant former self.

So when I have my Afghani friend, who's family heritage puts him squarely in the middle, tell me that they aren't ready, I can hardly call him a racist.

Hawk
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