Just imagine going to a soccer game and seeing men with guns everywhere watching you like hawks. You think you’re watching a regular game and then at halftime there are holes made and people are put in them, suddenly those poor people are getting stoned to death. This is one of the disgusting killing methods used by the Taliban Government in Afghanistan shown in "The Kite Runner". Next, you learn the man who runs this terrible regime was your childhood bully. That’s the way the government is in Afghanistan.
Unlike the U.S.A, Afghanistan does not have a stable government. Politics in Afghanistan has historically consisted of power struggles, bloody coups and unstable transfers of power. With the exception of a military rule, the country has been governed by nearly every system of government over the past century, including a monarchy, republic, theocracy and communist state. The constitution ratified by the 2003 Loya jirga(Council of Elders) restructured the government as an Islamic republic consisting of three branches, (executive, legislature and judiciary).
When electing a president, Afghanistans methods make no logical sense. In 2002 Hamid Karzai, an ethnic Pashtun from the southern city of Kandahar, as Chairman of the Afghan Interim Authority was chosen by the representatives to assume the title as Interim President of Afghanistan. In 2003, the country convened a Constitutional Loya Jirga and a new constitution was ratified in January 2004. Following an election in October 2004, Hamid Karzai won and became the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
The Taliban uses cruel methods to "punish" its people, methods that would never be tolerable in the United States. People don’t know how lucky they are to live in a place where there is no slavery or torture. Unfortunely, they will never know because people are so spoiled by everything good in America, they take freedom for granted. Americans are lucky no to be struggling for survival like those in Afghanistan; who are fighting for their lives daily.
Unlike the U.S.A, Afghanistan does not have a stable government. Politics in Afghanistan has historically consisted of power struggles, bloody coups and unstable transfers of power. With the exception of a military rule, the country has been governed by nearly every system of government over the past century, including a monarchy, republic, theocracy and communist state. The constitution ratified by the 2003 Loya jirga(Council of Elders) restructured the government as an Islamic republic consisting of three branches, (executive, legislature and judiciary).
When electing a president, Afghanistans methods make no logical sense. In 2002 Hamid Karzai, an ethnic Pashtun from the southern city of Kandahar, as Chairman of the Afghan Interim Authority was chosen by the representatives to assume the title as Interim President of Afghanistan. In 2003, the country convened a Constitutional Loya Jirga and a new constitution was ratified in January 2004. Following an election in October 2004, Hamid Karzai won and became the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
The Taliban uses cruel methods to "punish" its people, methods that would never be tolerable in the United States. People don’t know how lucky they are to live in a place where there is no slavery or torture. Unfortunely, they will never know because people are so spoiled by everything good in America, they take freedom for granted. Americans are lucky no to be struggling for survival like those in Afghanistan; who are fighting for their lives daily.
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