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Dear Leslie H. Gelb,
I hope you are in good health.
There used to be a time, when someone would write what I like to call journalism. However, our friend Leslie Gelb seems to have been sleeping in most of his classes, since despite the USA's obvious involvement in Afghanistan, he thinks Afghanistan simply has two ethnic groups, Pashtuns and Non-Pashtuns. Leslie also thinks the two(in his silly uneducated mind)are ready to chop off each others head. Due to his lack of awareness, he doesn't realize that there exists non-Pashtuns in the Taliban as well, and the term Taliban has lost its original meaning, nowadays it's a blanket statement which can be applied to anyone who is anti-American.
Leslie Gelb thinks being a patriotic American implies speaking nonsense at the expense of lies, acting ignorant, and he is unfortunately serving as an example to those who think Americans are backward and can't think. Even a quick Google search could've taught him that Afghanistan does not simply have two ethnic groups, it is a dynamic society, with each ethnic group having loyalists towards a particular political or militant group. The Northern Alliance had Mullah Naqib, a powerful Pashtun from Kandahar, as his ally to fight against the Taliban. I can mention several examples like the aforementioned but the point remains the same, we here at PF ask Leslie to refrain from his baseless assumptions, and to pick up a book on Afghanistan before you decide to publish an article.
Aside from the obvious burn he has received from Afghan intellectuals on twitter(from all ethnic groups)he has yet to issue an apology for his silly articles that he calls journalism. PF condemns his nonsense, and requests him to educate himself, and do some research on Afghanistan, and women, before he decides to type at 50 words per minute. Research should serve as a foundation for any article, unfortunately Leslie Gelb was snoring when he was taught that valuable lesson.
We forgive Leslie for his nonsense, even if he does not formally apologize, and hope that in the future, he does some research before he begins his chest-thumping, in hope of displaying his patriotism, which instead displays him as an ignorant, uneducated American, who didn't bother conducting elementary research before he penned his article. Humans make mistakes and blunders, and we hope that Leslie H Gelb learns from his mistake.
Caveat to Leslie Gelb:
Notice how I didn't get political, but I do want to mention that remember it was the USA who installed Karzai along with a bunch of war-lords in Afghanistan as the Afghan representatives. Afghans never asked for war lords and Karzai, we shoved it up their throats, and now that our own puppet is disobeying us, we are butt-hurt. Perhaps you should do some research on that as well.
Thank you.
-PF
I hope you are in good health.
There used to be a time, when someone would write what I like to call journalism. However, our friend Leslie Gelb seems to have been sleeping in most of his classes, since despite the USA's obvious involvement in Afghanistan, he thinks Afghanistan simply has two ethnic groups, Pashtuns and Non-Pashtuns. Leslie also thinks the two(in his silly uneducated mind)are ready to chop off each others head. Due to his lack of awareness, he doesn't realize that there exists non-Pashtuns in the Taliban as well, and the term Taliban has lost its original meaning, nowadays it's a blanket statement which can be applied to anyone who is anti-American.
Leslie Gelb thinks being a patriotic American implies speaking nonsense at the expense of lies, acting ignorant, and he is unfortunately serving as an example to those who think Americans are backward and can't think. Even a quick Google search could've taught him that Afghanistan does not simply have two ethnic groups, it is a dynamic society, with each ethnic group having loyalists towards a particular political or militant group. The Northern Alliance had Mullah Naqib, a powerful Pashtun from Kandahar, as his ally to fight against the Taliban. I can mention several examples like the aforementioned but the point remains the same, we here at PF ask Leslie to refrain from his baseless assumptions, and to pick up a book on Afghanistan before you decide to publish an article.
Aside from the obvious burn he has received from Afghan intellectuals on twitter(from all ethnic groups)he has yet to issue an apology for his silly articles that he calls journalism. PF condemns his nonsense, and requests him to educate himself, and do some research on Afghanistan, and women, before he decides to type at 50 words per minute. Research should serve as a foundation for any article, unfortunately Leslie Gelb was snoring when he was taught that valuable lesson.
We forgive Leslie for his nonsense, even if he does not formally apologize, and hope that in the future, he does some research before he begins his chest-thumping, in hope of displaying his patriotism, which instead displays him as an ignorant, uneducated American, who didn't bother conducting elementary research before he penned his article. Humans make mistakes and blunders, and we hope that Leslie H Gelb learns from his mistake.
Caveat to Leslie Gelb:
Notice how I didn't get political, but I do want to mention that remember it was the USA who installed Karzai along with a bunch of war-lords in Afghanistan as the Afghan representatives. Afghans never asked for war lords and Karzai, we shoved it up their throats, and now that our own puppet is disobeying us, we are butt-hurt. Perhaps you should do some research on that as well.
Thank you.
-PF
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