It appears that history does repeat itself.
Another Vietnam this time, it took a lot longer than the Vietnam war for the combined UN ISAF and especially the US to lose a war to the locals.
Bragging rights resonates throughout the Military and Political History how the Pen is indeed mightier than the sword.
Even when you overwhelmingly kill your enemies and occupy them for decades, the enemy will endure your presence and will overcome you.
Undeniable legacy of Western Civilisation will undoubtedly leave its indelible mark in modern Afghanistan. The Americanised cultural influence will reflect a two decade long cultural influence which will include a Gender tradition shift where Women rights will challenge the Koran at its core. Suppression and Gender conflict even in the household in many Afghanistan villages will reflect upon the modernised influence of Western cultural presence in the past two decades.
Even in modern Vietnam, when the Vietcong were victorious, the Communist ideals were weathered away and a Glasnost and Perestroika cultural and political Vietnam had already begun to germinate. Likewise, Afghanistan post ISAF will also plant the seeds that will irrevocably erode the ominous Phantom of the Taliban with the new generation of Afghanistan born in an era of ISAF occupation, likened to the Marshall Plan era in Japan,
In Japan, the Japanese culture were influenced by Americanism, from the rise of the Yakuza Mobsters, to Godzilla movies, modern car and computer technological manufacturing, to Baseball, and American Fast Food style sushi bars, Rugby and the Olympics, the American and Western Influence is now a mainstay of the modern Japanese culture today.
The modern Afghanistan whilst the reactionary fears of a resurgence of the Taliban seem saliently obvious, like the fall of Saigon, the original version of the Taliban and the reunification of Vietnam, will create an appearance of the old regime, however, the two decade long presence and influence of the Americans and ISAF will embed a cultural shift that not even the Koran nor the Taliban can ever hope to unlearn, sanitise, punish and purge from the hearts and minds of the modern Afghanistan culture.
Like the internet and the Google world influencing the enlightenment of people world over, the influence of the Occupiers can not be erased.
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