The Afghan Is Tan In Afghanistan

By Ronald H. Brady

(Preliminary Draft)

We will first consider a scenario of

Geopolitical Fiction.

A well educated rich Saudi Arabian nobleman is enjoying the

traditional practice of having a harem full of wives and
concubines. He also has no intention of changing the traditional
role of women in his society. For example, Saudi women are not
even allowed to drive a car or to go out at night unescorted by
a male relative.

The Saudi Nobleman and his son begin to start to have serious
discussions about the Western influence on their women folk.
For example, Western service women not only wear lip stick and
mini-skirts, but they also wear combat boots and drive military
trucks.

The rich Saudi Nobleman and his son decide to go the King of
Saudi Arabia to express their concerns. The nobleman even goes
so far as to urge the King to firmly ask the Western powers to
begin to withdraw their forces. For various political and
economic reasons, the Saudi King strictly rejects these notions.

Still, firmly believing that their traditional way of life was

potentially in jeopardy, the nobleman and his son hatch up a
plan to use their wealth to recruit “freedom fighters” to commit
acts of terror against innocent Westerners. The potential
terrorist recruits were to be promised seventy virgins, in the
next world, for their conjugal pleasure as a reward for their
diabolical acts. This is quite ironic because the nobleman is
already enjoying the conjugal pleasure of perhaps even 70
concubines (who very well may have been virgins when they were
first recruited) right here on earth.

But the principal point that we are trying to make here is that
the nobleman and his son think that their home land is under a
cultural and quasi military occupation by the Western powers.
So they contemplate, in their twisted fear corrupted way of
thinking, that they would be justified in becoming freedom
fighters with the mission of forcing the Western occupiers out.
They think that they are freedom fighters. We in the West know
that they are anything but real freedom fighters. But, in view
of the scriptural reference “as a man thinketh in his heart, so
is he”, it is very important, to paraphrase a wise old adage,
for us to know our enemy. Because we can then more easily
anticipate his actions and prepare to cost effectively defend
ourselves against him.

Actual News Item

The Obama administration has been deservedly commended for it’s

successful execution of the Seal Six team raid into Abbottabad,
Pakistan to take out Osama Bin Laden who according to news
accounts had up to nine wives living with him. Who will replace
him? Will that person also have a large number of wives? Is
there any measurable probability that one of the basic
motivating forces behind the actions of the Bin Ladens of the
Middle East is the fear that Western culture and influence will
eventually destroy their traditional dominance over their women
and their ability to enjoy the conjugal pleasures that their
religion permits and that their money can buy?

Equally important is question: should the primary objective of

Western foreign policy be to alter the traditional dominance of
middle eastern men over their women (in accordance with their
religious teachings) and to demolish the ability wealthy middle
eastern men to enjoy the conjugal pleasures that their religion
permits and that their money can buy?

If the answers to the questions immediately above are non-

affirmative then there may be a basis for a peaceful dialogue.
The starting points for such a dialogue would be

(1) an assurance by the west that it will not try to influence

the cultural affairs and the conjugal privileges of the men of
the middle east, and

(2) the west, in recognition of the fact that such practices are
prohibited by the Torah (which is well accepted by all three of
the major religions of the world), will not attempt to implement
the practice and acceptance of same sex unions and marriages in
the nations of the middle east.

(3) the western powers, in the absence of negotiated treaties

between the sovereign nations that are involved, will start a
phased withdrawal of all foreign troops from middle eastern
nations starting first with truck driving female soldiers (who
are well accepted in western nations but who are tolerated at
best in most of the nations of the middle east)

4) that law abiding citizens of the middle east will not harbor
or encourage terrorists because if they do so they will be
likely subjected to unannounced predator air attacks

5) that the middle eastern nations do nothing to interfere with

the free market trade of oil and other natural resources.

It is well known by the students of geopolitical affairs that

the western powers have vital interests associated with the
middle eastern region. The naive may think that it is in our
long term best interest to follow a policy of permanent
occupation. But a deeper cost accounting financial analysis may
reveal that the long term cost of the occupation combined with
the escalating additional expense (and inconvenience) that are
incurred in the fight against terror, not to mention the
potential social costs, associated with the ill feelings
generated by the occupation, may be much greater than the cost
of paying a fair market price for the oil and the other
resources from the nations of the middle east.

Moreover, the ill feelings mentioned above may be inherited by

future generations of middle eastern men. These men would then
be easy targets for recruitment by the Bin Ladens of the
future. The west now has a proliferation of smart phones. It
is now time that we get smart in the geopolitical war zones of
the fight against terror.