tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008813786806083758.post2603334515343686655..comments2023-02-25T05:42:16.087-08:00Comments on Patria Bolivariana: A personal take on the Afghan WarUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008813786806083758.post-13030852249999903272012-03-08T19:52:57.949-08:002012-03-08T19:52:57.949-08:00Hector, you seem to have left out that in what is ...Hector, you seem to have left out that in what is now Bangla Desh, and some other parts of what is still India, Dalits and other lower-caste people gladly converted to Islam because it offered them full humanity. Of course Islam isn't consistently practiced this way, just as the sense of universal brotherhood Malcolm X found on the Hajj to Mecca was not the universal experience of all Muslims in all lands in daily life.<br /><br />But it is to be found in Islamic writings, and it appealed for obvious reasons.<br /><br />As to Afghanistan, I believe we had to go in, but we should have spent six months kicking butt, turned things over to our gallant allies in the Northern Alliance, and then gone home.Siarlys Jenkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15083839117838391267noreply@blogger.com