"So my feelings about Germany are mixed. They saved my life by giving me asylum, but they're helping to kill thousands of my people. They know their own people are against this war, so they claim to be only a peace-keeping force, but they're really fighting on the side of the Americans. They have a whole squadron of spy planes that take pictures to show the Americans where to bomb. They've been teaching Afghan police and soldiers counter-insurgency tactics, but since that hasn't worked, now they've sent attack troops to kill the Taliban themselves. They're working with the USA to dominate the country and keep the puppet government in power.
"It's no wonder that the fanatics are trying to take vengeance here in Germany. They have to. Their friends are being murdered. Retribution is a matter of honor for them. That goes very deep."
"What do you think the Germans should do?"
"Stop supporting the American invasion. Pull out their troops and spy planes and go home."
"What should the USA do?"
"That's complicated. First we have to look at what they've done in the past. Throughout the seventies and eighties they did everything they could to overthrow the Afghan government. That government was communist, and to the USA that meant it had to go, no matter how many people had to die.
"The people most willing to die killing communists were the fanatical Muslims, who hated this secular government. The CIA helped them to attack it, starting with raids on outposts and assassinations of local officials. The government asked the Soviet Union for help, and they sent in troops. Then the CIA stepped up its involvement, recruiting thousands of mujahideen, training them, financing them, turning them into an army to attack the Soviets. It escalated into a full-scale war for ten years. Left two million dead, a lot of those children who starved in all the chaos. Brutalized the whole country. All the young people growing up knew was war. Savagery became their norm.
"The people the USA is now trying to kill -- the Taliban, Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda -- they were all on its payroll then fighting the communists. It was your government that turned them into killers. After they won the war, it was inevitable they'd take over the country. By then they were the strongest force.
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