Arundhati Roy - War is Peace

War is Peace (by : Arundhathi Roy

As the Night set in over Afghanistan on October 7th 2001 , the night was suddenly ablaze with display of light and sound . Ironically it was a Black Sunday for the people of Afghanistan . The U .S conducted air raids on Afghanistan . Afghanistan was already in rubble . Were these attacks justified ? These raids were telecast on TV channels . Many innocent children witnessed these intense episodes of blood shed . For every terrorist killed , many innocent lives were wiped out . These killings created more terrorists . What is this war

and violence all about ? This is about space , not a war of good over evil or culture . Living without space can prove to be claustrophobic and so it blew up into a war

These raids roads were closed and with winter setting in , it was difficult for people to get food . Though food packets were air dropped , people were in constant fear of being blown up by land mines

In the past twenty years wars between Soviet Union and America have given rise to a

group of maimed and disfigured people mostly in their forties . Young orphans stripped of their innocence strutted around with guns in their hands . These were young hands that never held teddies . Young men beat and raped women without any feelings of guilt

Now North alliance - Taliban 's enemy is trying to gain supremacy over Kabul and faced with complete defeat and soldiers were switching sides

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