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I am a Firm Believer of the on authorized biography that does not need and true. Untruth that just means you do without the cooperation of blessing of your subjects because that is a legitimate way to cover history especially public figures that have spent many, many years did billions of dollars creating their own image. So i think it is valuable sometimes to go behind that. Usually i am the one who tries to do get behind that to tell you what is going on. About every 40 years some global power tries to come in to dominate the afghans seem to control its use it for its own purposes. There have been periods of afghan history where the rulers of afghanistan have taken a vintage of the geographical position of afghanistan to play the neutrality card using the of favoritism to one global power play that again is the possibility to keep both someone it at bay. This is the diplomatic strategy of successful afghan rulers. The cold war was a double period. Both the u. S. S. R. And United States were both interested and both competing to enlarge their influence and somehow because of the counterbalancing of the two forces there is a pure u. N. At kievs were in control of their own destiny. During that period you saw modernization and change more rapid and dramatic then you have seen anywhere in this country. That period ended when, and the pendulum swinging back and forth started to swing so fast and far that it finally crashed and the country succumbed to a coup by the small communist group that was quickly followed by the soviet invasion. I would contend from that day to this we are still in the aftermath of the soviet invasion. That pretty much destroyed the fabric of the country. The 6 million refugees the destruction of the villages, the tearing apart of the tribal structures and the creation of a state of war in which the old traditional afghan systems for generating leadership gave way to a new system that was in that state of chaos if you had it done and were good with it you would end up being important. So that brought all whole of their class of the fbi leaders that our commanders now they call them or boards and data entered the fray. With the soviets left the all started to fight each other then came the taliban. Doubt we are in the country. We have the same idea that the soviets had which was this is a primitive country in a lot of trouble and if we can restore everything and produce material benefits for the people they will be grateful and come to our side. There is more to it. Afghans are interested in material benefits but there is a question of the of institution, a society society, seoul, a family structure, reconciliation of all contending factors on the afghans seem. The taliban business is not completely separate from the contentions with in Afghan Society over dominating the identity of afghanistan