Afghanistan: Five Years After 9/11 - 0 views
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Afghanistan was too weak to prevent the terrorism within its borders.
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Anushka Gandhi on 20 Nov 10This nation grew weak because of the Soviet invasion and Western
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“They began to kill Afghans,” Karzai said. “They began to destroy our mosques. They began to close schools. They began to insert war.”
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Democracy arrived, he said, millions of refugees returned, and the country has embarked on rebuilding.
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“For all of us in this world to be safer, we must remove the need for groups, organizations, or state entities [to rely] on religious radicalism as instruments of policy,” he said. “Military action in Afghanistan alone is not going to free us of terrorism. Going to the sources of terrorism, where they get trained, where they get motivated, where they get financed, where they get deployed, is necessary.”