Do you think it would be a good idea to post my Counterpunch article as a subject for discussion? To see how the Forum would react to it?

No, Afghans are not savages, and yes, everyone welcomes a better life. But I think there is an issue of subjection, in here. The Americans did not, in fact, deliver the freedom they always proclaim.

General Abdul Wali liked to quote the famous poem by La Fontaine about The Wolf and the Dog. The wolf was hungry and lean, so the big fat dog told him that getting plenty of food was easy: all the wolf had to do was put on a collar, and wear a chain.

"Chain! chain you! What! run you not, then,
Just where you please, and when?"

"So ran Sir Wolf, and runs yet."

Jean de La Fontaine Fables Online - The Gold Scales

God bless, Carlo