The Resistance Council, composed of notorious and infamous figures in contemporary Afghan history, has issued a statement regarding the “U.S. House of Representatives’ decision to approve the plan to halt international aid to Afghanistan.”
In this statement, the long-standing delusion of these individuals regarding foreign support has once again been unveiled. This council, while welcoming the decision of the U.S. House of Representatives to halt humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, has become optimistic about the U.S. support for itself; a claim that lacks social legitimacy and is nothing more than a reflection of an isolated and stagnant mindset deluded by foreign support.
In recent years, this council has focused all its political investments on the return of Western supporters, believing that by repeating the past and showing servitude, it can return to power once again. While the experience of the past four years has shown that the United States and other Western countries consider these figures to be finished and powerless actors; those who have neither a popular base in Afghanistan nor the ability to stand against the will of the people.
The deceptive point in this statement is the repeated claim of representing the people of Afghanistan. The Resistance Council considers itself the “representative of the people,” even though it lacks both the legitimacy of the people’s vote and public acceptance. The people of Afghanistan not only consider these individuals disconnected from the public’s will but also hold them responsible for the main causes of corruption, dependency, and the political disasters of the past two decades.
If this council were truly representative of the people of Afghanistan, at the very least, they would not have colluded and cooperated with Afghanistan’s enemies in the killing and slaughter of the people, and in the devastation and occupation of the country. They would have at least refrained from amassing wealth for themselves and would have worked towards eradicating poverty in society. In their twenty years of rule, they have not shown the slightest resistance or sacrifice in favor of the people’s interests.
Their recent claim about the necessity of transferring international aid through “transparent” routes, supposedly theirs, is in fact an attempt to revive a corrupt network, all under the guise of humanitarianism.
But the people of Afghanistan, after twenty years of bitter experience, have learned well that any slogan given in their name as representation of the nation or for the nation is nothing but a cover for personal and family interests.
Today, Afghan society is neither pleased with the repetitive prescriptions of the Westernized nor deceived by the polished tribunes of yesterday’s traitors.
The people of Afghanistan, with their deep historical understanding and festering wounds from the past, know well that the return of figures whose only talent lies in backdoor deals, lobbying, and collusion in foreign halls means the repetition of a cycle of failure, corruption, and defeat.
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