US-Funded Textbooks Teach Afghan Children Whitewashed History
The curriculum in Afghan schools intentionally excludes four decades of war in an effort to "bring people together".
“There is no mention of the Soviet war, the mujaheddin, the Taliban or the U.S. military presence,” reports the Washington Post. “In their efforts to promote a single national identity, Afghan leaders have deemed their own history too controversial.”
When state-funded indoctrination books whitewash entire swathes of relevant history, societal problems don’t simply go away. They’re compounded. Afghans are suffering on a daily basis from war and yet the U.S. and their Afghan “education” wardens appear to have decided to keep children ignorant of the causes of their country’s troubles.
Attempting to erase four decades of history is something extremely beneficial for [the U.S.] the criminals, thugs, and extremists that have terrorized the country in that time.