The case here is not a philosophical problem, or a theological issue, these are moral and ethical values which we are able to test by going down to the real world and seeing how these values take form in Kabul and Mazar Sharif after the guns go silent, then we will know what values you were actually fighting for.

In the Gospel, Jesus said, “By their fruits you shall know them.” The American constitution, which is the embodiment of American values, remained preserved like a holy relic of the middle ages until the following two amendments were enacted: the first prohibiting alcoholic drinks, and the second which abrogated the prohibition. Although the second is a clear example of the defeat of values before the power of destructive lusts, that is not the point. The point is that American values in Afghanistan have been completely reversed. The conquering Crusaders have given the Afghani people the good news that alcohol and its accompanying vices are permitted. Despite the fact that it is human nature to deviate, those who responded to this type of values were a minority among the Afghani people. At the same time American values expressed themselves in tangible proof when they did everything to oppose democracy by giving power to armed gangs from among the ethnic and religious minorities with a bloody history frequently mentioned by the Americans themselves. They immediately set about destroying morals and behavior standards through the temptations of freedom, until it became clear that the government of the Taliban were of more advanced values then those who removed prohibition from the American constitution, and that the people of Afghanistan in welcoming prohibition were of a higher standard of morality and ethics than the American people who rejoiced at the cancellation of prohibition, and have never since reconsidered it.

Three months were enough to end these vaporous [new] values, when the Minister of Justice of the temporary government in Kabul announced under the pressure

of popular demand, that the application of the Islamic Law that the Taliban applied is unavoidable, including the punishment for drinking alcohol. Opium growers’ and dealers’ sense of the smell of American values was truer than that of many of those who fervently support those values, since they quickly proceeded to return to Afghanistan following the American occupation, anticipating a new future for their humanitarian work, and an opening of the American market which is the largest market for this plague.

George Bernard Shaw made the sarcastic comment on the duplicity of Western values: “I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. “Similarly, the Afghani people may forgive the Americans for bombing the warehouses of food supplies, targeting orphanages, and their other actions in the name of the so-called “just war,” even the prisoners in the Ganjee? Fortress and in Cuba, but they will never forgive their insult to the values in which they believe and their preference of arbitrary, man-made values which are neither stable or just, and their attempt to drag them down to the lowest American values, both in war and peace.

Furthermore, the Islamic World may reluctantly come to understand the arrogance of the American administration, and its blundering and abuse, by considering it to be the pharaonic tendency of all historic empires, but it absolutely will not accept American intellectuals teaching us Islamic values, and setting themselves up as preachers of these values simply because a very small number of Muslims did –or are accused of doing- an action that is minor in comparison to what the American governing institutions have done in all the inhabited continents for nearly a full century, with the very important distinction that no Muslim, whether moderate or extremist, ever thought of harming America before America’s bias toward the Zionist entity and offering it every support for its terrorism and violence, and before America attacked more than one