Should the west, UK, Europe, Canada, US, Australia open the doors to all Afghans that want to leave Afghanistan? (and other oppressive nations)? Thus, rather than allowing those people to fall to resentment and misery under oppressive regimes, just drain their home nations blood by non-violent means.
Let Darwin do the rest, after all, what with a
preference for male heirs, and minimising education, these medieval cultures
are on the slow road to self eradication anyway.
An Afghan nurse, plumber, architect, shopkeeper,
estate agent, banker is an asset, but not if they are not allowed to leave
their home without a chaperone. It's a waste to leave these people to the
Taliban.
I get the sleeping terrorist worry. But, there are going to
be two likely outcomes from the Taliban takeover. Mass refugees leaving, living
wasted existences on borders elsewhere, or subtle unreported massacres.
I'd love to be wrong. I'd love for the Taliban to
bring stability and peace to the region after what must be close to four
decades of strife since the Russian invasion, never mind the decades of
internal strife prior to that.
This is one of those opportunities if it can be
framed right. Uplift all those who want out and drop them into free societies,
where they can have their cultural identity in the mix of all other cultures, and prevent the likely genocide which will ensue if the Taliban are true to form.
The Taliban will have their Ideological Utopia, and they will invariably murder
their way to it. Why not for the first time in umpteen decades, defuse it? Just
rescue those that don't want to be treated no better than farmyard animals. And
leave the new Afghanistan to the ideologues.
Yes, there could be a counter-insurgency, and if
people want to stay and fight, crack on. But those that don't want to fight,
and just want to live a life, have kids, hobbies, friends, whatever. Just pick
them up and demonstrate why the western way is better in spite of its faults.
And give the miserable religious Luddites their land to fuck up as they will.
And when their infrastructure has crumbled, their intelligentsia has left and
all the weapons they looted at this time are worn out, they can look on the
wider decadent world, and how well it's doing and contemplate rethinking their
thinking.
The alternative if we get involved again is
decades more war, trying to repatriate people back to their native lands from
shitty camps in `nowhere and no prospect' land. And all the while there could be
genius being lost or wasted through living hand to mouth.
Just the existence of
refugees at this juncture of history demonstrate how far we have yet to climb
on the civilisation ladder.
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
