I remember following along with an Afghan army commando on twitter during the fall of the government. He died in the end, but I think about his last post a lot.
“Although we have embarrassed ourselves on the world stage there was plenty of bravery on the fronts. Nobody will hear about it, no monuments built for them, but we had plenty of heroes. We never had 300,000. At most we had 10,000. All the fighting was done by commando units. Real heroes. Heroes betrayed by comrades.
Your blood and treasure was not wasted. You have laid the foundations for many generations of Afghans who will benefit from it in the coming years.”
I hope folks don’t see Afghanistan as a monolith. There was a lot of good done, even if things were never great. Real Afghans believed in the vision and died to try and protect what they were building.
I don’t know if they can ever be free of the Taliban, but I certainly hope I live to see it.
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I remember following along with an Afghan army commando on twitter during the fall of the government. He died in the end, but I think about his last post a lot.
“Although we have embarrassed ourselves on the world stage there was plenty of bravery on the fronts. Nobody will hear about it, no monuments built for them, but we had plenty of heroes. We never had 300,000. At most we had 10,000. All the fighting was done by commando units. Real heroes. Heroes betrayed by comrades.
Your blood and treasure was not wasted. You have laid the foundations for many generations of Afghans who will benefit from it in the coming years.”
I hope folks don’t see Afghanistan as a monolith. There was a lot of good done, even if things were never great. Real Afghans believed in the vision and died to try and protect what they were building.
I don’t know if they can ever be free of the Taliban, but I certainly hope I live to see it.