Kabul explosion: Islamic State 'admits attack on Hazara protest'
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Shias going to fight sunnis
Reportedly, the Iranians have lost several high ranking officers in Syria, due to fratricide from these Afghan Hazara mercenaries.
There is a big cultural divide. Class is more distinct in Iran, and after thirty five years of dictatorship, the masters have grown more bold and the subjects more meek - in Afghanistan, not so much. Afghans are not fearful people.
Abusive treatment of subordinates by an Iranian General is accepted, even expected. Abusive treatment of an Afghan is significantly more dangerous. There have been several Iranian Colonels and Generals (some from among very prominent families) shot dead by their Hazara troops.
The Iranians have extensively replaced their Regular Army and Revolutionary Guards troops in Syria with Afghan Hazara militia. Although they have had a challenge with leadership and discipline, it has greatly reduced the political problem they had back home from the high rate of casualties - the most since the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980’s.
But, but, but, we went and have destroyed Afghanistan (as a country) multiple times over the last 3 decades, and more specifically since 2001, to destroy the Taliban. AND, apparently, it took us some 10 yrs thereafter to find and kill, what was his name... oh... Osama Bin Laden!
So confusing what actually we achieved in Afghanistan!
So now some Hazara (who are not Pashtun ethnic group) gone and joined Assad? Is that it? Were we there to destroy Taliban who were mostly Pashtuns? Or what’s/was the deal? So confusing!!
This is as twisted as Soetero doing nothing when the people of Iran fought back and died then a few years later gives the mullahs billions. Twisted. How does one flee their own war then choose to fight in the Syrian war that is as bloody as the one they fled? *Rhetorical*