“The Kite Runner” is an AWESOME book! I’m 100 pages in and all I can say is it is an amazing read. Besides the story behind it between a young boy, Amir and his servant/friend Hassan are the little instances where you learn about the culture of an Afghani as well as between Sunni and Shii’a. Reading this book I can’t help but think that there is no way the leaders that decided to take our country to war had an inkling of an idea, NOT ONE, what it would take to get Sunni and Shia to get along.
There was a line in the book that Said Afghani don’t like rules. It said the Russians and another country learned that the hard way. Afghani’s have customs, not rules. Amazing really, but that sums up the culture our country has to deal with. Another part in the book describes the hatred the Afghan Sunni’s have for the Pashtun Shii’a. If you didn’t know, the Pashtun’s were savagely killed, some would say genocide, I think over 100 years ago. The men and children were all killed, the women were raped to death and what was left over was taken as slaves. So modern day Afghan Sunni look at the Pashtun Shii’a as less than human.
Oh and FYI, Iran is mostly Shii’a. Oh and did you know that Maliki (Iraq’s president) is Shii’a. Oh, did you know that I think Saddam was Sunni? Our country is so in over their heads it would be comical if our troops weren’t caught in the middle.
The best part of all, I’m arguing with my dad yesterday in the car why we shouldn’t be in Iraq like we are in North Korea. He thinks McCain’s plan is fine and that we should be there forever too.
read the book, learn something and then give a history lesson to the idiots that think us being in Baghdad, the 3rd holiest city to all Muslims, is a good thing and that eventually we will be beloved.
