The importance of a society and it's survival

The importance of a society and it's survival: Why the Taliban won :                Afghanistan's long and tragic story will tarnish the American psyche for generations to come. Blood, bullets, and boo...

               Afghanistan's long and tragic story will tarnish the American psyche for generations to come. Blood, bullets, and books did not stop the Reconquista of the hermit kingdom. After two trillion dollars of American treasure and thousands of American GI lives, it was all in vain. The tears on American flags didn't defeat a humble and illiterate insurgency. Men who could barely read or understand thermodynamics defeated the most powerful military in the world. All the trillions and billions of dollars of military hardware, missiles, and Apache helicopters could not defeat a jihadist warrior with a scimitar and sandals.               The Taliban sang phrases from The Quarn as they shot American m-4s into the air as they took Kabul. Even as women wept and children screamed at the Kabul airport, Marines were left helpless and unable to save the tens of thousand...

I must write so I can speak. I fear destruction and ruin for a country and civilization I love: America. Many cultures and nations fall and rise on one principle: remembering. Remembering the past so the future may be safe. Remember the principles and virtues that make a society flourish and grow like a beautiful garden. Why does a simple act of memory save or doom a nation? Because if you don’t know where you came from, you are doomed to repeat the failures of the past. Why do certain things work in building a bridge and other things make it crumble? Why did the Aztecs sacrifice babies in blood rituals, and the Spaniards stop them? Why did the Spaniards have steel and Aztec warriors wear jaguar skin while wielding obsidian blades? Today in America, her youth does not know the past. They do not know why they live in abundance of material goods and food. They have iPhones with unlimited computing power; scientists in ancient Babylon and Alexandria would weep if they had such devices. Bu...