"Afghanistan was not destroyed by one ethnicity"
Stopped reading then & there.
Afghanistan was not destroyed by one ethnicity, and no single people should carry collective blame for the countryβs tragedies.
For decades, Afghanistan suffered under warlords, militias, corruption, foreign interference, extremism, and power struggles involving figures from many different ethnic and political backgrounds.
During the Republic era, some of the most influential powerbrokers included figures like Abdul Rashid Dostum, Atta Mohammad Noor, Mohammad Mohaqiq, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and others who all played major roles in Afghanistanβs political and military landscape alongside Pashtun leaders and Taliban factions.
Yet despite this complicated history, ordinary Pashtuns are constantly singled out and collectively associated with the Taliban, even though millions of Pashtuns were themselves victims of war, displacement, bombings, extremism, poverty, and political failure.
The Taliban are responsible for Taliban crimes. Corrupt elites are responsible for corruption. Warlords are responsible for warlordism. But innocent civilians should never be turned into ethnic scapegoats for the actions of armed factions and political leaders.
Anyone who still insists on collectively blaming an entire ethnicity for the actions of armed groups is not serious in politics or national healing.