Essays on Afghanistan

Introduction

Qualitative research is an important aspect in determining the effectiveness of stories in the network. In this case, we consider a news site such as CNN, where major world news can be extracted. By addressing a substantial number of stories, it is possible to come up with an effective conclusion and an overall trend of the things happening across the globe.

Part 1: Priori categories:

- Major topic of discussion: the involvement of the United States in the war in Afghanistan - Repercussions of the American involvement in the United states - Emergent stories concerning this form of involvement of the united states ...

This fascinating book, written by Asne Seierstad and first published in English in Great Britain in 2003 by Back Bay Books / Little Brown, is her own story, but is written as though a work of fiction. In the foreword she tells how she met Sultan Khan – the bookseller (not his real name) – while working in Afghanistan as a journalist in 2001. He invited her in to his home so that she could experience Afghan family life firsthand in the recently-liberated capital city. A man who loves books, Sultan took many risks over the years in order to trade ...

Afghanistan occupation: Take a pro or con position on whether the US should pull out of Afghanistan as it is today.

Thesis statement

Public opinion in the United States of America is for the government to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan. I will not support the pulling out of the troops out of Afghanistan.

Introduction

There was information from the White House regarding a statement on the status of the available negotiations between Afghanistan and the United States of America with the main intention of keeping the troops in Afghanistan after the year 2014. The White House and the Pentagon have been ...

Khalid Husseini an Afghan national has written a story named “The Kite Runner”. The writer himself belongs to the area from where the story erupts. In this story, the writer has very beautifully portrayed the various images of life.

Thesis statement:

The three stages in the life of a young boy have shown how bravely he faced all the hard situations in his life. Rising from a small area, and going up and then coming back to his roots, is the main theme of this story. The ethnic problems engulfed the happiness of a whole country.

Literature review:

This story is very deeply ...

Country Profile

About Afghanistan Situated between the borders of China, Iran and Pakistan, Afghanistan is considered to take on so much culture and tradition from its neighboring countries (Banting, 2003). Rich in several mountainous regions, the country imposes interest on those who love to travel and be adventurous at the same time. Back in the days, the nation specifically held a great possibility of becoming a central attraction for most adventurous travelers who are bound towards the central areas of Asia. There are approximately 35,320 445 residents accounted for in 2011 who embrace Afghanistan as their home (Bleaney, et al, ...

United States of America was dragged into a war and invasion in Afghanistan in response to the attacks conducted against the World Trade Center (Mepham and Cooper, p. 56). It has been over twelve years now and the war is far from over. There are multiple dimensions to the analysis of the war. These dimensions range from analysis of the success met, to the economic costs incurred, the loss of human life on civilian front, and also the military casualties suffered. Over fifty thousand troops were originally stationed in Afghanistan and with time they have seen phase wise withdraw. ...

Having an addiction of any kind is dangerous. However, one kind of addiction that involves the most amount of health risk is drug addiction. Drug addiction is an ill that can rear its ugly head no matter who you are, and that is reason enough to take notice of it. Sadly though, despite what many people would like to believe, addiction to drugs is still very much a part of modern society, and the numbers surrounding the addiction are mind boggling to say the least. According to figures provided by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, around ...

Lions for Lambs is an American fictional film written by Matthew Michael and released in 2007. Robert Redford directs the film. Arian and Ernest, two determined students at the West Coast University, are being advised by their idealistic professor to do something imperative with their lives. They commit themselves to fighting in the army, in Afghanistan after school valediction as a way of showing their patriotism. Another student, Todd, listens to the professor to learn why Arian and Ernest are in Afghanistan. In Washington, a captivating Republican presidential candidate, Legislator Jasper Irving calls journalist Janine Roth to his office ...

Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) In Iraq-Afghanistan Wars

Abstract Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are homemade bombs that are constructed and deployed in certain ways. Since October 2001, IEDs have been responsible for over 3000 combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. These devises are designed to specifically kill, harass, or injure people or groups of people. In Iraq and Afghanistan, IEDs have been widely used. They are hidden behind guardrails and signs, inside animal carcasses, and under roadside debris, these encounters are very dangerous as they are causing thousands of death in Iraq and Afghanistan annually (Tanielian, 2008, p. 11). This strategy has taken a different direction where ...

The Just War Theory is a doctrine developed by Christians to determine whether the war is just. A number of criteria are used to determine whether the war is morally justifiable. The war is considered just if it satisfies a series of criteria. The Just War Theory has two parts which include: Jus ad bellum (conditions where war is justifiable) and Jus in Bello (conducting war in an ethical way). Jus ad bellum concerns whether it is moral to go to war while Jus in Bello concerns moral conduct expected in war (Jean, 2004). There is need to add ...

4 Questions A. Philadelphia, PA, USA. In a response of at least 175 words, compare the role of religion vs. nativist politics as underlying causes of the violent Protestant–Catholic confrontation. Include the word count in parentheses at the end of your response.The cause of the Philidelphia Nativist Riots was multifaceted; as Philadelphia improved on its industrialization, more and more Irish immigrants were coming to America to work, especially in the light of the Irish potato famine This brought a new population of Catholics to America, which alarmed the mostly-protestant Americans (and those Irish who were also Protestant). This ...

- About twelve years ago, four U.S commercial airliners were hijacked by al Qaeda terrorists and flown into the Pentagon, a Pennsylvanian field and the World Trade Towers. - Following this attack, Operation Enduring Freedom was launched on Oct. 7, 2001 by the US against the al Qaeda forces in an effort to dislocate and eliminate their safe haven. - 54,000 American troops are still in Afghanistan. - This Afghanistan War is thus far the longest, multi-divisional war ever fought in the history of America. - Over 2,700 troops from the US and troops from at least ...

Berman, Eli, et al. "Do working men rebel? Insurgency and unemployment in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Philippines." Journal of Conflict Resolution 55.4 (2011): 496-528.A large part of the Afghan population is unemployed because of the war making any economic activity impossible. Unemployment is bad for the economy as it as wise men say, an idle mind is the devils work shop. People start thinking of illegal ways of making money. Clarke, Richard A. Against all enemies: Inside America's war on terror. Simon and Schuster, 2004.According to this book, there are cases of insider attacks, where American soldiers turn ...

The state of war and peace in Afghanistan has had a significant impact on the distribution of the foreign aid. Afghanistan is among the developing countries, according to the ISI (International Statistical Institute). It is classified as a developing country on the criterion that it has a GNI (Gross National Income) of less than US $11, 905 per capita a year (ISI, 2014). In order to help Afghanistan (and other developing countries) get through the development process, developed countries and international organizations, channel funds to this country, in the form of foreign. However, given the state of war and ...

Arundhati Roy was born in 1961 in Shillong India. She grew up to become of the renowned activist in India criticizing the government on various issues and even donated money she was awarded to educational institutions, publishing houses and the people’s movement in India. She noted that the American economic policy hurts many people making it to be hated. She points out up to 500,000 Iraq children died due the American policy. In 1979, the American recruited Mujahedeen to fight on their behalf to destabilize the communist regime in most of the Arab countries. ISI and by ...

Classic English Literature

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hoseini hit the bookshelves in 2003. The text gives the reader ideas for colour by revealing the conflicts and complexities in characters in Afghanistan during post colonialisatin and colonialisation period. The novel has been highly appreciated for the historical and ethnographic insights provided and has been interpreted using diverse themes. The main themes of coming of age, ethnicity and morality are highly conflicting and the author has presented the history and culture of Afghanistan to form a backdrop for the story. The narrative in The Kite Runner is shaped by the central themes of ...

Policemen of the World

Introduction Since it has gained its independence after the Civil War, the United States of America became the force to be reckoned with as the world’s dominant force in the international arena. Many nations look up to the United States in any given issue: may it be political, economic or social in nature. Considering these circumstances, the US is often regarded by many as the world’s “policemen” and for the US, such responsibility is done in full confidence and dedication each time an issue arises around the globe. Only recently, the US has deployed its forces in ...

The Kite Runner is a novel written by Khaled Hosseini that revolves around themes of revenge and redemption, with the setting involving two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, and their exploits from childhood to adulthood that involves their home nation, Afghanistan, being torn by war under the attempted invasion by the former Soviet Union (USSR) and the reign of the Taliban. Rhetorically speaking, Hosseini wrote his novel to emphasize that there amicable relationships, filial and non-filial, can still be forged in the midst of unfortunate circumstances that are way beyond the control of the characters. The gravity of both ...

The word talib literally means faith-seeking. Taliban - is interwoven network of teachers and students of private, overwhelmingly rural, madrasas in Afghanistan and the surrounding Pashtun lands of the Pakistani territory, which existed here for a long time. However, the policy of the Taliban never interfered, remaining purely religious social stratum. Push to the political activities of the Taliban movement gave the Soviet war in Afghanistan. In the historical and mass consciousness of Islamic nations there is the concept of jihad - war against the invading crusaders on Islamic territory. Participation in it is the bounden duty of every ...

Al-Qaeda is a militant organization that was founded around 1986-1988 by Osama Bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam and other militants. The organization was said to be borne out of the Soviet war in Afghanistan. It has been classified as a terrorist group by the United Nations Security Council and the NATO, among other groups. The group’s strategies involve mainly suicide attacks and bombings of various targets. Al Qaeda in Iraq. According to the website of Vox, what is known today as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is what used to be Al-Qaeda in Iraq. During the ...

Al-Qaeda is an Islamist organization composed of radicalized Islam followers who engage in terrorist activities; the group adheres to the Sunni Islam. Osama bin Laden founded and headed the international terror group. The group has firm origins in the Middle East countries with links and allies in almost all other nations of the world. The group mainly targets Americans and their allies. It also attacks people from different faiths, other than Islam. Al-Qaeda has roots in Iraq, Afghanistan, Saud Arabia and Yemen. Al-Qaeda in Iraq came under much scrutiny and publication during the tenure of President Saddam Hussein. The ...

In the article, “Afghanistan in 1996: Year of the Taliban”, Ralp H. Magnus has described about the change initiated by Taliban in the year 1996. The author described that the forces of Ahmed Shah Masud had resisted the entry of Taliban by the end of the year 1995. In the same year, the United Nations also started its efforts again, and the interest of the United States in Afghanistan’s situation also increased. But, this situation indicated danger for Russia as well as for the states of the Central Asia because the war came closer to their borders. The ...

Media and Weapons of Mass Deception

Media are the main source of information around the world. It comes in many forms like newspaper, magazines, televisions, radios, among others. “Weapons of Mass Deception” is a derogatory phrase used by a few people to depict the United States President George W. Bush's claims for Saddam Hussein. Bush claimed that Saddam Hussein owned weapons of mass destruction as rationalization for the war on Iraq. In a broader sense, the goals of different factors like, terrorist groups, politicians, military, etc. get linked together with an increase in media coverage of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Media have been ...

Part 1

1. Write a thesis statement that is one to two (1-2) sentences long in which you: The country has used its military to affects changes in other countries affairs in various ways. This paper seeks to analyze how the United States has used its military to affect the affairs of other countries in the past. a. State your opinion on the significance of the two (2) real-life international incidents that you have researched. Justify your response. In several occasions, United States’ dominant force has been evident in the international relations. Arguably, there have been numerous U.S. military functions across ...

{Name of author} {Name of professor} {Education] {Date}

The killing of the representative of terrorists, Osama Bin Laden has brought joy to many as it has put a stop to a lot of many killings that were happening, this has caused much freedom to the Afghanistan people. The United States as a great nation has helped many recover from effects caused by the death of their loved ones after the sending of troops on Afghanistan and getting rid of Osama bin Laden. Research done claims that women have suffered most in Afghanistan. According to the difference feminists, they believed ...

Abstract

- Introduction The focus of this paper is gender inequality in the workplace of Afghanistan. At present, less than half of working age women is employed. Those who work have lower wages than men and they are constantly under the threat of harassment and rape. There are cultural, political, and socio-economic factors that contribute to the current conditions in the country’s labor force. The system of patriarchy is the primary cultural deterrent to the women’s successful participation in the workplace. The lack of policies that safeguard women’s rights in the workplace is the political limitation in ...

The colonially constructed entity known as Afghanistan includes various erudite disagreements that are helping its quick decrease as a maintainable unit of political economy. American and other universal neo-provincial on-screen characters in and experts of Afghanistan have inherited and received British pioneer demeanor and activities at the nation. Therefore, the individuals of Afghanistan have been subjected to provincially defined understandings of themselves, and have yet to get the social and intelligent devices important to oppose and reject the inconvenience of the other's perspective of self (Kaifi&Mujtaba 2010). The main parts of Western compositions on Afghanistan outline the provincial experience ...

According to what I have read in news stories, I can assume that Afghanistan is a country with a painful history, and unfortunately the history is just being repeated, but not as sad as before. I read the news about a country that has many great men and women, a spaceman, who’s paid a visit back to his country after approximately 20 years, a young woman who has established a school though, she is aware of the dangers might be caused by what she has done. I read a story about the first and only music school in ...

The struggle started with this news, when Hamid Karzai’s government quietly started to release prisoners from Bagram prison in 2013. Parwan Detention Facility or also called the Bagram Theater Internment Facility is located in U.S. airbase, in Bagram. This facility has a long dramatic history, were torturing dozens of prisoners were disclosed. The control of this prison was handed to Afghan Authorities in a small ceremony on September 10, 2012. Later the Afghan authorities started to classify the prisoners into two groups: The first group is identified as criminals and they’ll wait for criminal prosecution, the second ...

After the Great Wars that shook the status quo in the 1900s up to the late 90s, many believed that peace would no longer be threatened by worldwide conflict. However, this relief had been shattered when a group had decided to attack several key installations of the world’s only superpower on September 11, 2001, returning the fear that was once felt in the time of the Great Wars. With a group known as Al Qaeda taking responsibility over the crime, the US and its allies have declared “The War on Terror” against groups such as Al Qaeda across ...

This paper will focus on an exhibit from the Southeast Museum of Photography with the exhibit in review: War. It will give a description on the picture of the exit. It will explain why this picture is proactive. The artist I do not know much about it. Last it will explain how the individual responds were doing the exhibit. The picture called Afghanistan Garmosr Marines by Louie Palu was the one that spoke to me. The reason was for was this because a picture clearly defined proactively with the emotions of our marines. It a photo that spoke volume ...

Access to school is a significant social justice affair; success in education is a primary step in achieving brighter future not only for Afghanistan but also for re-invigorating the nation in terms of opportunity, combating poverty and economy. It is significant to offer system of education which can counter the worrying effect of unique religious doctrine which is dangerous and rampant within its ideology and jeopardizes the stability as well as the future of Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, 40 percent of girls attend or access elementary school, and just one in 20 Afghan girls attend school past the sixth grade ( ...

Summary of Chapters 3-5

Chapter three opens with an intense image of Parwana cleaning filfth off of Masooma. She goes to the trouble of heating water to do it, but also believes thi si a just comeuppance. Masooma and Parwana share a tender moment here though, as Parwana looks after Masooma. She spots Saboor twice that day. That night Masoom asks Parwana if she remembers the time they were riding a bycicle together fast down a hill with dogs chasing them. This is a very happy moment for Masooma, and presumably for Parwana also. There are flashbacks to the raising of Masooma and ...

Admission Essay – Important Issue

Like many Americans, 9/11 was a profoundly affecting moment in my life – it was a stark reminder of our mortality, the world culture we live in, and the existence of those who seek nothing more than to kill in the name of their beliefs. I was in school when it happened; my teachers told us all to stay in our classrooms, and they turned on the television so we could watch the coverage. Seeing the World Trade Center towers in flames, and eventually collapse, had a powerful effect on me; I was suddenly reminded of just how unsafe I ...

Introduction

Part of my 10-year career plan that commences after my graduation from my Bachelors in International Studies degree program is my intent to work with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). As I have mentioned to myself repeatedly, I wish to contribute to alleviating the ordeal of refugees and migrants by working with them through the UNHCR. Racial prejudice stands as among the many problems refugees and migrants encounter, and I wish to understand that matter better by working with the UNHCR so that I could substantially contribute to removing its harmful effects someday. In light of ...

Dear Program Director:

I am writing in support of the candidacy of [INSERT NAME HERE] to your BSHS in Medical Laboratory Scienceprogram. I had the pleasure of crossing paths with Sgt. [INSERT NAME HERE] during our deployment in Afghanistan in support of ISAF operations. As an Officer and Registered Nurse I am responsible for management of all the operations that the clinic in the Forward Operating Base undertakes, both combat and non-combat related. [INSERT NAME HERE] serves as the Troop Medical Clinic Laboratory’s Non-Commissioned Officer in charge of laboarory work in support of medical personnel. [INSERT NAME HERE] consistintely performs splendily ...

In the wake of 9/11, many new military advancements were created in order to fight a brand new enemy: extremist terrorist groups. Terrorism is defined as “premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents” (Jordan, p. 267). Instead of country fighting against country, the adversaries the American military face are smaller, splintered, and not affiliated with any specific government. They fight for an ideal, not for land, and the governing bodies of the countries in which they reside have no official political or economic ties with them. As a result, it is far ...

In the 2007 film Charlie Wilson’s War, US Representative Charlie Wilson (Tom Hanks) finds himself working to increase funding and support for the mujahedeen freedom fighters battling the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, often through underhanded and clandestine means. The film presents Wilson as a champion rallying behind a cause, idealistically hoping to help the mujahedeen defeat the Soviet Union and give them the help they desperately needed. Charlie uses substantial political bargaining and maneuvering to get the funding for CIA agent Gust Avrakotos’ group, something that places his actions in a bit more ambiguous area with regards to ...

The Kite Runner is a very famous novel written by Khaled Hosseini. The novel has been acclaimed all over the world and is immortalized in the history of literature. In the novel, Amir is reminiscent of the event that made him the man he is. The nice chronology of life prevailed before the overthrow of the king of Afghanistan. However, one day, Amir is threatened by Assef for playing with Hassan, a Hazara. Hassan uses his slingshots to attack Assef and thus Amir is saved. In winter, during the kite flying competition, Amir wins by severing the string of ...

Opinion

The U.S. policy should practice isolationism in order to protect the interest of the people and the nation. The U.S. policy is influenced by interventionism where the country sent U.S. forces to stay in Afghanistan. The presence of the troops has placed the security and stability of strained the relationship between the people in Afghanistan, the brewing conflict between the U.S. government and Karzai government. The longer the U.S. troops stayed in Afghanistan has degraded the country’s armed forces by getting involved in the decades of war in between Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, this has resulted to ...

The cold war was a military and economic super showing between the Soviet Union and the western allied states to the United States. The concept of brinkmanship was used to show the extend or extreme nature in which the cold war pushed both the United States and the Soviet Union to invent deadly military weapons so as to force each other to the extremities and finally forcing them to surrender unconditionally (Gaddis, 2006). During the cold war, the eastern block and the western blocks both used tactics and intimidation as strategies to make their opposing factions back down or ...

Introduction

Terrorism refers to the systematic use of violence to cause terror among civilians with the purpose of asserting demands and forcing the government to give in to those demands. Individuals involved in terror activity are called terrorists. Terrorists execute terror actions by different means such as bombing, hijacking, kidnapping, and assassination. Based on execution style, terrorism has been classified into different types including state terrorism, bioterrorism, Eco terrorism, cyber terrorism, nuclear terrorism, anarchist terrorism, religious terrorism, nationalist terrorism and narcoterrorism. All of these types of terrorism are perpetrated using some specific methods of violence to convey a message. Terrorist ...

1.a According to hotel Rwanda, Paul who is from the descendants of Hutu is married to a Tutsi, Tatiana. However, it is evident from the movie that there exists enmity between the two tribes. Paul is left to head the hotel after the workers were deported to their countries. Later, the hotel is turned into a makeshift refugee camp. As the refugees increase, divided ideologies and insecurity start to emerge. 1.b.a Baba is the biological father of Amir even though the two do not have a strong relationship. However, Baba’s closest friend, Khan understands Amir better, and he ...

Just to begin with, it is prudent to note that twelve years later from the time Bin laden attacked the United States of America; most people still wonder how such attack could have happened in the most powerful soil of America. Some individuals also still ask themselves whether the terrorist attack could have been preventable. However, as per now, many people have full information about the errors that the Americans did which made the attack possible. The book Provides new light to the historical decisions which has profound effects on the current events. This paper therefore shall provide a ...

1 (a) Paul, an individual of Hutu descent, is married to Tatiana, a Tutsi. This union is a source of tension with the Hutu radicals, especially George Rutaganda. Hutus are not to associate with Tutsis in any way. As violence escalated, and the Hutus’ genocide against the Tutsis began. Foreigners working at the hotel are moved out of their country. Thus, Paul is left as the head of the hotel. However, his principles cannot allow him to observe as the blameless are massacred. It does not take long before the hotel is transformed into a makeshift refugee camp. At ...

Introduction

The purpose of Afghanistan invasion was essentially to dismantle Algaeda organization and stop its use of the Afghanistan as its base. The US intention was to eradicate fundamentalist Taliban regime from authority in Afghanistan. The United States war in Afghanistan was actually estimated to cost between $4 trillion and $6 trillion. On the other hand, Vietnam War represented an attempt that was successful on the part of the Vietnam republic and national front for liberation of Vietnam to unite together and impose the communist system over the whole nation. This war occurred in the cold war and is viewed ...

Lila Abu-Lughod’s article “The Muslim woman: The power of images and the danger of pity” has been praised by many readers. Lila Abu-Lughod’s article is a criticism of how people from West view the Muslim women from the Middle East ever since the September 11 attacks. She writes that thinking the “burqa” as something that besets Muslim women of their freedom is a “reductive interpretation” and should be resisted. According to her, by denouncing “the burqa as a medieval or patriarchal imposition,” the West is actually rudely encroaching on the thoughts and understandings of women because they ...

ABSTRACT

Suicide bombing and other forms of terrorism are tactics, not goals or strategies, and since the Afghanistan War began in 1979, the main political, religious and ideological purpose of men like Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki was to overthrow the regimes in Muslim countries that were allied with the Western powers and restore the medieval Islamic Caliphate based on Sharia law. They used terrorist methods at any time and in any countries that they thought would best accomplish their overall purpose, and also searched for countries in Africa, East Asia, the Middle East and Central Asia where they ...

The war on terror has been one of the most expensive battles to burden the United State of America economy. In the most recent decades, the war has been waged against terrorist groups like the al Qaeda and the Taliban. The main challenge on the fight against the al Qaeda group is the lack of a central region of operation and use of guerilla war tactics. The group is spread in Afghanistan, Pakistan and some part of Africa. The 11th September 2001 twin tower attacks on the United State soil saw President George .W. Bush officially declare war on ...

‘Restrepo’ is a documentary that depicts the Afghanistan war. Sebastian Junger, an American journalist along with photographer, Tim Hetherington has made this documentary. The duo has recorded the movie while accompanying a platoon in a very dangerous warfare, korangal valley in Afghanistan. This paper discusses the documentary, Restrepo and other related aspects of the movie. Junger and Hetherington have a good experience of war zones and known for their excellent works as well as bravery. This documentary was made by duo while they stayed with the American troops in the Afghanistan. There they sensed life death emotions, and several ...

Introduction: Afghanistan as America’s Longest War

In Chapter 2 of her book, Every Man in this Village is a Liar, Megan Stack described the start of the Afghan War in 2001 and the failed attempt to capture or kill Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora. Bin Laden is dead now, of course, gunned down by a Navy SEAL team at his hideout in Pakistan, but the war in Afghanistan drags on despite all loss of popular support for it there or in the United States. None of the conditions Stack observed in 2001, such as the corruption of the warlords, the poverty and despair of ...

The TMOQ documentary made quite an outstanding impact on me regarding the United States involvement in Afghanistan. Upon watching the documentary, I went further to do some research on whether the United States has any business continuing their involvement in Afghanistan since we have disseminated Osama Bin Laden and weakened Al-Qaida. I think that the continued stay in Afghanistan is an insult to nation building and to the integrity of Afghani people. In the article, Why the Military Needs to Leave Afghanistan, and Soon, Phil Sparrow makes a case against continued western military presence in Afghanistan. Phil Sparrow argues ...

In A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, Afghani men have also been portrayed as being victims, albeit not as obviously as the women. While Afghani women face every possible kind of abuse and oppression, men are mostly victims of culture. Laila’s father, Hakim, says ‘the only enemy an Afghan cannot defeat is himself’ . This statement beautifully summarizes the cultural victimization of Afghan men. As the country has been invaded by several nations, it has led to the rise of multiple classes and cultures that have segregated the society into sects such as the Pashtuns, Hazaras, Uzbeks and ...

The declaration “It must and will not happen again” in reference to war has been repeated over and over again by people from all over the world. Indeed, freedom from war has become an essential component of human well-being. This is in an attempt to stop people from fighting, harming and killing each other, scenes that unfold in various battle grounds around the world.

Sebastian Junger’s documented experiences of the Korengal Valley during the war in Afghanistan perfectly exemplify the adversities of wars. The film, Restrepo directed by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington, explores the life of a ...

In The Kite Runner, notions of community run steadily throughout the book. One of the most definable traits of community is the interdependence of individuals, and taking action to benefit others in their community at little to no gains for the self. This sentiment is extremely evident in The Kite Runner, through the repeated use of the phrase "For you, a thousand times over." Throughout the book, characters do things for each other and take care of each other to support their community; conversely, characters who do not behave in the best interests of the community feel guilt because ...

Political Science

“Peace and Cooperation in Central Eurasia: An Iranian Outlook” is an article written by Jahangir Karami. Karami is an assistant professor at the University of Tehran in the Russian Studies department. Therefore the article is especially interesting because it is from an Iranian’s point of view. Iran and Russia have had many opportunities during the past 15 to 20 years to interact and become more culturally aware of each other. The opportunities have become possible because of the need to cooperate on issues concerning the countries of Central Eurasia that lie between the two large powers. The rise ...

Methods of Engagement in Afghanistan: Security, Identity and Economy

The cultural differences between the United States (U.S) and Afghanistan are huge. The U.S. celebrated its independence from the British Empire about 1236 years ago compared to Afghanistan’s population who has lived there for generations. The U.S. first became involved militarily there when it armed Afghan fighters against the Soviet invasion between 1979 and 1989. A devastating ten year Civil War followed. (Rohde & Crossette, 2001) Next the Taliban came to power and then lost power when the current U.S. war against Afghanistan started in 2001. Unfortunately after over a decade war in Afghanistan the suffering of the people ...

Abstract

On May 1, 2012, President Barack Obama made an address in Kabul, Afghanistan regarding the future of America's involvement in Afghanistan. Over the course of the speech, the President details the signing of an "historic agreement" between the two countries that establishes their relationship for the foreseeable future, one in which an "equal partnership" is created and the war in Afghanistan is slowly ended. Over the course of this speech, and in the plan itself, President Obama reveals a very neoliberalist attitude taken toward the United States and its relationship with Afghanistan; instead of conquering the country, or attempting ...

In the article, Why the Military Needs to Leave Afghanistan, and Soon, Phil Sparrow makes a case against continued western military presence in Afghanistan. Phil Sparrow argues that while NATO, led by the United States and British military should leave as soon as possible, the political capacity builders should stay to help Afghanistan rebuild the governmental institutions that are vital for the country’s structural revamping. Phil Sparrow’s article is a response to Jillian Hacking’s article that argued that many Afghans favored the continued presence of the NATO military forces because they assured security to the citizens. ...

The experience of Josiah Harlan inspired Rudyard Kipling to write “the man who would be king”, in this story, Harlan is depicted as Daniel Dravot and in 1975 a film was based on the book. Harlan’s experience also inspired Ben Macintyre to write the book “the first American in Afghanistan” in 2004. The book only partly depicts Harlan’s experience and part of the story is fiction. This paper analyses fiction in the book and film compared to the experience of Harlan in Afghanistan as depicted by the book by Macintyre (2004).

Bibliography of Josiah Harlan

Josiah Harlan was born in the ...