U.S. White House blogger suggests better times for Afghan people

[Kshasty]

Source: RIA Novosti

A U.S. citizen commented in a blog posted on the White House website that people of Afghanistan suffered too much from Soviets and 'other terrorist groups.'

"The people of Afghanistan have endured violence for decades. They've been confronted with occupation - by the Soviet Union, and then by foreign al Qaeda fighters who used Afghan land for their own purposes," Katie Stanton wrote in her blog posted on the official White Hose website.

The war in Afghanistan was a nine-year conflict involving Soviet forces supporting the Marxist PDPA (People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan) government against the largely Islamic fundamentalist Mujahideen insurgents. It began on December 25, 1979 and over 14,000 Soviet troops died in the conflict, over a million Afghan civilians are reported to have been killed in the war.

"We have no interest in occupying your country. We will support efforts by the Afghan government to open the door to those Taliban who abandon violence and respect the human rights of their fellow citizens," she said in her blog.

Read more: http://en.rian.ru/world/20091204/157091839.html

[EFerrari]

1. Welcome to DU, Kshasty.

:hi:

[ixion]

2. "We have no interest in occupying your country"...

uh, I got news for you Katie, we're occupiers right now.