Tore Wold @torewold - Twitter Profile

My heart needed emptying: Afghans, we have always stood at the crossroads of history, but what do we choose? To tear each other apart instead of uniting against the true enemy. How many times will we repeat this vicious cycle? We fight each other, we bicker, we destroy our own, and in that weakness, our enemies have prospered. From the days of Ahmad Shah Durrani to today, have we learned nothing? He once said, "The Afghan nation is united by blood, and no external force can divide it." But here we are, divided not by outsiders, but by ourselves. We are living in the shadow of our greatest strength, but we refuse to see it. We let the invaders, the British, the Soviets, the Americans, and now the ISI-sponsored Taliban, define our future, while we argue over scraps. And let me ask you—where has that gotten us? What victory have we achieved by fighting our brothers and sisters while the enemy watches, laughing? The cycle is as old as time. Ghani turned his back on the nation, Karzai cozied up to the enemy. And before them, we had treacherous kings who sold our land for silver and survival. "The Afghans are like the wind," Dost Mohammad Khan said, but today, we are wind scattered by the storms of our own making. We are divided by ethnicity, by tribe, by who we think is right and who we think is wrong—but what good has that done for Afghanistan? Our enemy has never been each other. Our enemy is the one who silences our women, who bombs our schools, who takes our lands and makes us foreigners in our own country. Yet, we choose to fight among ourselves. Bacha Khan once said, "My message to you is peace—let’s unite and fight the true oppressors!" But here we are, Afghans fighting Afghans while our daughters lose their rights, and our sons grow up under occupation. Enough is enough. This cycle ends with us, or it will consume us all. It’s time we stand shoulder to shoulder as one people, or we will forever be ruled by those who prey on our divisions. Afghanistan needs unity, not another civil war.