Afghanistan: the fear of women's power

Your editor is an old man of poor culture.

I deeply admire those who, on the basis of deep and substantial intellectual foundations, manage to put their heads out of the pond at every flock of fronds expressing their definitive opinion on fundamental issues.

And so I admire the professional haters who are tearing their clothes off accusing the United States and that "doting" of their president who is managing America's final exit from Afghanistan with great determination.

In this planetary multitude stand out in a particular way the American Republicans who find no better opportunity than to criticize Joe Biden fighting to be impeached and thrown down from the throne he has occupied for eight months.

The sycophants of the former president in their amnesia do not remember or pretend not to remember that this unfortunate war in Afghanistan was started by George W Bush.

Apart from the tears shed in commenting on the tragic photos of the escape from Kabul, many point out a terrible fall in the image of the United States and Europe.

But few wonder how it is possible that 79,000 Taliban are able to counter an army of 300 thousand units, super prepared by American managers, an army that has not fired a single shot, and Taliban have been able to emerge from nowhere conquering an entire nation in a very short time.

The Afghan people suffered the 13-year occupation of the Soviets who returned to their homeland super junkies.

The Afghan people have been under occupation by Western troops, but above all by the Americans who have spent a trillion of dollars on it to create a modern army, health and education facilities, trying to get a political class elected that was not enmeshed in corruption.

In this damn afghan war the Americans have lost more than 2200 soldiers (we Italians 54 of which no one remembers).

Not to mention the scythe to which the people of this tortured country have been subjected.

Then there are those who have been taken in perplexity by the statements of the Taliban leaders who have told the population to be quiet, everyone must return to do their job, women will be guaranteed to be able to go out (as long as they are covered completely) and carry out the activities to which they previously dedicated themselves and so on citing a whole series of promises that, let's face it, conflict with their recent and past history.

A cunning move that will certainly not stop the professional killers who, according to reliable testimonies, are doing their job by going to look for those who have collaborated with the hated Americans.

Then a question arises: is it possible that a people like the Afghan people is manifesting its imperturbable acceptance of a political and social reverse that will bring the life of this nation back to that medieval level that is the highest aspiration of the Taliban leaders?

A probable answer is provided by a disenchanted friend.

"It is not correct to judge a situation like the one that is being created in Afghanistan with the filter of our Catholic - Lutheran culture.", he tells us while sipping a cold lemonade in the oppressive Washingtonian heat.

In front of our interrogative expression he adds: 

"The stay for 20 years of Westerners, but especially Americans, in that country has put a strain on the ideological religious foundations on which the life of this people has been set for centuries. 

Would you like me to believe that the majority of Afghan men of all ages are satisfied with their marginalization that has changed especially the new female generations? 

The Afghan man does not like the excessive schooling of women that puts him in further difficulty. 

The Afghan man wants to recover his centralism and puts in the account the loss of individual freedoms (assuming that in recent years he had been able to take advantage of it) in order to manage that role that is, moreover, amply confirmed by the religion that he follows."

"Therefore, concludes our friend, it may seem absurd to judge a complex situation like that of Afghanistan on the basis of elementary concepts. 

But it should not be forgotten that every society lives and supports itself on its own legs (culture and religion) even if someone has tried over time to amputate them...! 

As for women, for many Afghans it is good that they returns to the 'leash'. Let the Taliban come. It is not only the fear of Taliban. It is the fear of the fear of women's power."

Oscar