Disintegrationstan

I read some meaningful pages in Hosseini's "The Kite Runner". I was astonished for the novel is very esplicit, about something most of the so-called international analysts and experts are blind to: Afghanistan, as a contemporary state, ruled by a Pashto elite, harshly divided among ethnic groups, religious rivalries, castes and social classes, partly unified by a broad diffusion of Farsi dialects, lasted till 1973. The young, fragile, artificial political construction aborted when king Zahir Shah's brother-in-law, Mohammed Daoud Khan, launched a bloodless coup, to became the first president of another banana republic.

Afghanistan then definitely became Disintegrationstan.

We have a problem.

Are we, the free Nations, fighting there to prevent the establishment of a modern Caliphate under islamofascist regime, or are we substaining an impossible rebirth of then aborted Afghanistan?

Are we there to capture key al-Quaeda leaders, or to let an oldminded, short-sighted Pashto elite to keep the power they wouldn't have without our sacrifices?