Research - Afghanistan.

A country thrown into a life of war and effortless stereotypes since the birth of the country. A country that just one day decides to become violence and the center of hate or a country that is born into it? Generations have been subjected to other countries hate towards them or other countries feeling the need to take them under their own rule. Normal children have a fit until they get what they want, play with barbies and cars and go to school, these Afghan children watch slaughters. So how can you expect them to grow up "normal". To grow up not wanting to hate, to not want to go to war. Though take in consideration the Taliban, is not a nation. Not every women and child and man will follow them. Not all will choose it over death. Americans kill Americans like Canadians kill Canadians .. like Afghans kill Afghans. Yes, we have to go after the 'bad guys' but we can not sit there and blame the entire country for what is going on. Women have no rights, they aren’t allowed to do anything and yet we can stereotype them in the same group as the terroristic men? They aren't out to just get wealthy countries. But can you blame them for wanting to? In 1919, Afghanistan regains independence after a third war that is against British Forces trying to bring Afghanistan under their 'sphere of influence'. And it’s a continuous battle after 1919 to even today as i write this, in 2011. Theres battles within the Government and struggles with new and old religions within the people. 1980s another sphere of influence comes to take over Afghanistan, the Soviet Union's communists move in. 1985 half the population is estimated to be displaced by war, many fleeing to Pakistan. A year later the U.S Begins to supply an afghan leader Mujahedin with Stinger Missiles to shoot down Soviet helicopters. In 1988 Afghanistan, USSR, US and Pakistan sign peace accord and it takes a year for the Soviets to finally pull out. 1991 US and USSR agree to end military aid to both sides. Doesn’t take long for something else to start up. in 1992 the country is once again torn apart by a war between two different groups and Najibullah falls from power. In two years over sixty-five thousand people are killed in the city Kabul while the two groups fight for power. And it 1994 the Taliban emerge as a challenge to the government. Two years later they seize control of a major city Kabul and introduce a hard-line version of Islam, banning women from work, introducing Islamic punishment which include stoning to death. The Taliban end up controlling 2/3 of the country. and then in 1998 the bombings start. US launch missile strikes at 'Suspected bases' of Osama bin Laden who they accused of bombing US embassies in Africa. In April 2001, the most powerful Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Rabbani dies. in September 9th 2001 Ahmad Shah Massoud, a man who played a leading role in getting the Soviets out of Afghanistan and created the United Front which was against the Taliban, was assassinated by Arab al-Qaeda suicide bombers. September 11th 2001, the Taliban are held repsonisble for attacks on american trade towers, two were hit, three fall. All hell breaks loose. I think you know the rest. death toll continues to rise.

2002 July - US air raid in Uruzgan province kills 48 civilians, many of them members of a wedding party

2003 June - Clashes between Taliban fighters and government forces in Kandahar province leave 49 people dead.

2005 February - Several hundred people are killed in the harshest winter weather in a decade.

2005 April - An Afghan woman was stoned to death for adultery

2005 May - Details emerge of alleged prisoner abuse by US forces at detention centres in Afghanistan.

My Review

- Don't know if it will work but its all i was able to write about. but better then nothing eh.

Hate. There's many levels and many reasons to hate. My view on hate is that it is something that is needed in the world. You might wonder why. Isn't Hate what we have been trying to rid from the world, isn't it what starts wars and gets people killed? But there's good and bad to hate, seems like a contradiction. Take a minute to think about.

There's the good side of Hate. If you hate a job or a type of friend or situation then you learn from that hate to stay away from that type of job if you can. Or to try to stay away from that type of friend that caused you to feel hate towards them. I don't mean simple hate like disliking homework and not wanting to do it or disliking having to do chores. But the hate that can teach you a lesson to not put yourself in that situation and it could keep you safer. Hating a person or certain quality can keep you away from them and therefore away from that which might of hurt you in the past. Hating the way a boyfriend might of treated you or an ex husband can cause you to notice and pick out the same qualities in other people and stop you from making the same mistake.

The Bad side of hate is that it takes a lot of energy from you if you spend your time focusing and hating a person, or place or situation. If you spend all your time hating a family member or friend then you can drain yourself. How positive and happy can your day be if you spend so much time trying to hate someone or something. And if you take time to seek out and find reasons to hate, that takes time out of your life that you cant get back. Sometimes when it consumes you it becomes a feeling that embraces your body. A sick feeling in your stomach, one that can make you feel weak and like you have no strength left to deal with anything anymore, especially what it is that you hate. It causes lack of motivation and hating something and thinking about it, focusing just on that can bring your mood down to a depression state of mind.

Hate can teach a lesson. That it can cause a nation to fall and people to die but it can also help someone. If it doesn't take over your life and you don't drown in your anger and miserableness that it might cause then it can keep you from making the same mistake that you made in the past that caused that hate.

Perception is life

Nothing is as real as we see it. Nothing is simple. It may be in our eyes but its more complicated then we think. The eye is easily manipulated. We often have a closed mind and we don't see much else then we want to see.

The media and advertisements have major illusions within themselves. The media gives the illusion that there is constant danger and that no one is safe by only focusing on the stories about murder and theft. Everyone locks their doors at night, puts alarms on their cars, watches their children carefully, has security cameras, because the media has shown that 1 in a million chance of it happening and made it seem like an every day occurrence. They tell us that the numbers of crimes and murders have risen which scares us but do we take in the consideration of our Population rise? Society's desensitization to violence? Both families working to survive and the child raising themselves? With how much the population has risen in the past 50 years, 20 years, it only makes sense that crime rises with it. So it’s not much different then it was 30 years ago, its not that the population stays the same and crime keeps rising, it changes with the population. But their focus is not to make you feel better. Illusions within Advertisement is that everyone looks this certain way except you and that you will only be liked if you have and wear their products. They pull you in by having Famous stars that are beautiful and tall and thin and tell you that you should look like them because ... well ... who wouldn’t want to? And the guys in the commercials who get the girl just because they smell good but might have no personality and they are nicely built but that means they have to spend most of their relationships in the gym to obtain that beaut of a bod. They fail to mention how many shots it might have taken to get the star to look that way, the right lighting, how long it takes to put on the make-up, digitally playing with the lighting after the shot, making sure all the colours match.

Manipulation is all over the world. It’s how we are ruled and how we are controlled. The government has to have a way to get us all to follow and do what they say and be scared into trusting them so that they don't have to worry about we the people wanting them gone and enabling them to rule. They give the illusion that what they do is right because they control a fair amount so that we see the good and not the bad in their choices. And make us think we don't have to worry about it by manipulating us and getting us to see what the government wants us to see and that means that we will not question what they do because that's how we are brought up and we are supposed to trust this authority figure so we follow along. We have grown up following these rules of illusions and now they are normal to us, we no longer think about the many possibilities that can go along with everything within the world and we only think about what it is that we see just as it is and not a bigger picture of it and what we see is controlled. We don't question things anymore. Take 9/11 for example. Ask around and you will find that a lot of people, American and Canadian, do not know about the third tower that fell and they will not have heard the creator of the buildings say that they were not supposed to fall like that. Ask around and the majority of people will agree it was a terrorist attack. Ask the few people that were able to look past what the government showed us and told us to believe, and they will say that it does not add up. Fear of other Countries and fear of each other is what keeps a population trusting the Government to keep us safe and keeps us easier to rule. There’s nothing to fear but fear itself unless its a Muslim, Jew, or Christian, because ones got bombs and the ones got something bigger then us that we cant understand and that’s scary, Right?. There’s this massive illusion of fear that is in our every day lives and we don’t know how it would be to live without fear because we never have. We may think its not there and we might not notice it but do you lock your car door? Do you lock you house doors? Do you lock your windows? Do you cross the road when certain people are walking towards you? A Nation confident in them, wealthy and peaceful is harder to rule. Why? Because what’s there to stop them from having an up rise when the Government turns around and says pass a law or do something they said they weren’t going to.