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Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy (1973-1990) National Archive essay: "Afghanistan experienced massive changes between 1973 and 1990--four coups, the intervention and withdrawal of the Soviet armed forces, the exile of one-third of its population as a result of the war, and one million deaths" |
On the Taliban, by Hazara.net |
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To Whom It May Concern: It is not my natural policy to want to destroy the different governments that men feel are necessary for their needs and happiness. I do feel that in their governments they have seriously neglected music as a vital factor in human relationships and that musicians have been left at the mercy of the worst type of exploitation and hostile environment. The type of governments that men have today are the type of governments that they deserve and I am not saying anything about governments because as long as men don't change, governments will always be just as they have always been under the jurisdiction of man. I do not feel that America which is a country based on spiritual concepts should deny those who are spiritual who feel that they can contribute more to humanity by being their natural spiritual selves. I am not trying to reform the world. I am not trying to be a self ordained leader of a cult or any of those things that have been thought and said by other people. I am only offering what I have to offer in the sincereness of my heart to those who might have the need of what I am saying. I am only doing that which it is natural for me to do. I do not have contempt for governments. What would men do without governments, since there are so many of them? Still I feel that men are limited in their vision and in the things which they can do for a person and if they are limited I like to feel it is not because they are keeping anyone else from trying. America has proven itself to be a very efficient government despite mistakes for 'To err is human'...I am not in politics, still I am offering what I have to offer to the world in the only way I know how to do so. " Sun Ra The Immeasurable Equation lovolution lovevolv@dti.net 10/02/01 10:33:09 MDT |