Harrowing accounts emerge of the Taliban’s reign of terror in Kunduz

[Shamlawar Khurasani]

I feel sorry for people who consider the likes of Massoud as "their voice".

[khushal]

The Massouds, Dostums and Mazaris were loved by their people. They were a voice for the ethnic groups, who were blocked from politics by the Pashtun ruling class. This is hard for you to swallow, that Pashtuns discriminated other people for centuries. Taliban advances are due to other factors.

I don't personally like any of these figures, but they are symptoms of a country that failed to integrate its own people.

Thats a myth. It is no secrete that the pashtun ruling class were persianized. They spoke farsi as their only language and they practiced farsi culture. The rebellion to the ruling class always came from pashtuns. Farsiwans have never rebelled on ethnic marginalization. Hazaras are the only ones that can claim marginalization by pashtuns and tajiks alike.

Dostom was back stabbed by his own pedophile commander when Mazar fell and masoud's only protection were the mountains of panjshir. The North fell to the Taliban faster than any pashtun area. The only people that love the warlords are foreign troops because they bend over so readily on command. Your leaders are like women protected by foreign men.