Heard an interesting talk this evening about Afghanistan, from someone who had lived and worked there in recent years. In the back of my mind I sort of knew that that the current problems there were in some way as a result of the interference of our governments (US and UK mainly) over the past 100 years, but I hadn't realised the scale of our past sins.
I knew that the CIA had funded the Afghan resistance to the Soviet Union when they were in the country, supplying arms and training, but wasn't aware that this involved the setting up of the very training camps for Al Qaeda and the Mujahideen that they are now a) trying to destroy and b) telling us that the threat to our own country comes from!
Praying for this country is not easy. The people are poor, life expectancy is terrible, health and sanitation third world, average wage $1/day, and they have lived with constant war for 30 years.
The west has spent $billions on waging a proxy war in this country, the Soviet Union did likewise - where are the winners, because the ordinary Afghan people are certianly the losers!
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