It is scheduled that nearly a hundred members of the expatriate opposition groups of the caretaker government will gather in Vienna, the capital of Austria, on February 18th and 19th of this year. This will be the fifth Vienna conference in about three years, but the previous conferences did not yield any significant results. These conferences are organized to unify the expatriate opposition groups and resolve their internal differences. However, with the conclusion of the meetings, not only are these differences not resolved, but they also increase and new groups emerge from the existing factions.
If we consider the structure of such meetings, the composition of individuals and groups, the topics of their discussions, agendas and other issues, anyone from the beginning of these meetings can imagine that they are meaningless and useless gatherings with no achievements. In these meetings, those individuals gather who are the main culprits of Afghanistan’s long tragedy, either their parties or family members, from whom the people of Afghanistan have no good memories. They have fled from the fear of their own thorns and their lost status, power and dignity are visibly apparent on their faces.
These groups and individuals have so many differences with each other due to personal, party, ethnic and sectarian interests, demands, orders and preferences that without foreign assistance, even five people cannot unite among themselves. For them, these kinds of meetings are also organized by foreigners, the expenses are covered by them, the agenda is set by them, and in these meetings, they are encouraged by foreigners to set aside their internal differences and, according to them, to agree on implementing democracy and Western values in Afghanistan.
But they have no plans for themselves, for Afghanistan, or for any achievements to satisfy their donors so that projects are given to them. They only make imaginary promises there, each boasting of millions of followers and each trying to show their donors that they are closer to them than any other competitor. Each tries to show their donors that they can protect their interests better than anyone else.
But their main goal is to fill their pockets, revive their lost false status, power and authority and work for their personal interests and whims. In this competition, they have reached the peak of discord, have divided, fragmented and severely weakened each other. Despite foreign aid and efforts, they still cannot unite and gather at one table. On the other hand, the people now recognize their dark, ambiguous and indecisive faces better than before, no one supports them, but their hatred increases every day and they feel peace and prosperity in a vacant Afghanistan without their presence.
The fifth Vienna meeting, like the previous ones, is useless and meaningless. In this meeting, a group of specific ethnic, regional and party political deal-makers and merchants will gather again. As before, they will boast in front of their foreign donors and supporters, make false promises to them, but with the end of the meeting, their current structures will further disintegrate, fragment and they will watch their nefarious plans and goals unravel with red eyes and trembling faces, and that’s it!
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