Ahmed Rashid Quotes About Taliban

• America does not hold to the colonial tradition. America came, liberated Afghanistan from the Taliban and al-Qaida, came to an arrangement with Hamid Karzai, wanted to organize elections as soon as possible and then withdraw. The Bush administration thought that once there is a democracy, everything else will fall into place. If today you speak to the architects of the 2001 Afghanistan Conference in Bonn, they will tell you that instead of being fixated on elections, we should have built a State in Afghanistan with an army and a police force first.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Fall, Army, Police

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

• I met a lot of the senior Taliban, and I asked them precisely [about Mullah Omar]. The most common answer was he is humble. And that was very true. We never had reports of Mullah Omar living luxuriously or making money in large quantities or anything like that.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Senior, Humble, Answers

  Fuente: www.npr.org

• I think within a year or so, perhaps, if 9/11 had not happened, in Afghanistan would have been a very broad-based general uprising against the Taliban.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Thinking, Years, Uprising

  Fuente: www.npr.org

• Los pastunes se sienten discriminados por los estadounidenses porque apoyaron a los talibanes y la guerra sigue en su región con continuos bombardeos estadounidenses. También están descontentos por el poder abrumador de sus rivales étnicos, los tayikos, que dominan las fuerzas de seguridad en Kabul y controlan los principales resortes del poder político. Aunque Karzai también es pashtún, muchos lo consideran rehén de los tayikos y los estadounidenses.

  Ahmed Rashid

  War, Keys, Political

  Fuente: progressive.org

• We should remember that the Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. Of course, many of them did support the Taliban. But you cannot equate all Pashtuns with the Taliban.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Support, Groups, Remember

  Fuente: progressive.org

• The key to breaking the Taliban taboo against women and the cultural brainwashing that the Taliban imposed upon many Afghans is to get women back into the workforce.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Keys, Brainwashing, Workforce

  Fuente: progressive.org

• What everyone underestimated was the acute unpopularity of the Taliban, even in the Pashtun areas. People like myself were saying the Taliban would be driven out very swiftly from the north of Afghanistan, but given that their main support base was in the Pashtun belt, there would be greater resistance there. That didn't happen. The Taliban had become deeply unpopular and were actually discarded by the Pashtun population almost as quickly as they were in the north. I don't see the Taliban coming back in any way.

  Ahmed Rashid

  People, Support, Population

  Fuente: progressive.org

• Some Pakistanis fought for the Taliban. Pakistani extremist groups provided infrastructural support to Al Qaeda. There was a coming and going of Al Qaeda militants and leaders between Afghanistan and Pakistan for several years. All that has really happened is that Al Qaeda has escaped from Afghanistan come into Pakistan, got in touch with their contacts and friends in these extremist groups, which then provided them with safe houses, cars, and not just in the border areas but also in the cities. Rooting out Al Qaeda in Pakistan now is where the main battle is being fought.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Extremist Groups, Years, Cities

  Fuente: progressive.org

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