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"There’s a sulky, grudging silent majority in most of the world—imagine Bakersfield with subtitles and exotic soundtracks. Most of the time, the hicks who make up those silent majorities are harmless, too busy messing up their own lives to do much damage. But in a few places, that hick anger and resentment of the cool, fast world links up with some bigger agendas, with money and ambition. And in those places, some pretty seriously godawful shit happens, and it’s just cowardice to pretend that everything was nice there until the eeeevul drones started blasting."
Excellent article. It's a mystery to me why the division between Pashtuns and Hazara in Afghanistan isn't made more explicit in the western media. Instead, it's the tired "Taliban" versus "Afghan Army" rhetoric, which does not represent the reality on the ground and fails to convey the simple truth that conflict between the two sides shows no signs of diminishing.
Powerful.So they have to fight passive-aggressive style. One of the most effective ways to fight back is with your dead. The dead are very, very important in irregular warfare. After the February 16 massacre, the Quetta Hazara refused to bury their dead.