[MtnGoat]

I say it not the Western thing, I say it is the mindset, religion along with most not wanting to change. A Pashtun in the mountains along the AF/PK border thinks different from one that lives in a city. The same can be said from one living in Kandahar to Kabul. This plays true to a hazaran, Uzbek and tajiki. Hazarans are a different breed of people in that country.

Back to my thought over this, it's not a western thinking to trying to change a country in a way of thinking or a economy system or a whatever. Afghanistan will never change as a country as a whole. Most Afghani leaders could never do it. Amanullah tried social and economic reform in the late twenties, this continued to the soviet invasion. They have never had no real commerce that is developed within the country is always been a through fare for exports through the silk Road or the ancients into the current soak road of the drug trade. No no one from history till current has ever developed that country economically and in my opinion it will never happen.

I say this, if you look at when the British partitioned their Britished in 1947, Afghanistan wanted the Pathans of what would become the North-West Frontier Province. If we could go back and look at what the Afghanis had wanted in 1955, the creation of an autonomous Pathan state, Pushtunistan (Pakhtunistan). Gee what does Pakistan call the North-West Frontier Province when? Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Now why didn't USAID or other European and world bank partners not invest more in the afghan he economy? I say the history in the Afghanistan religion separatist within this country, over a period of time, plays out to the answer of why.

Guy is right. I say it will not change in a generation nor IMO will it be changed in two generations.