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In October 2001, the United $tates and its mostly NATO allies started the attack on Afghanistan with bombing. Soon there were over 10,000 U.$. troops in Afghanistan. In October, 2006, NATO took over command of troops in Afghanistan. On October 28 2006, NATO's commander leading the occupation said there was a "mistake" that killed 70 Afghani citizens.
Today it is five years into the occupation, but there is no report of any communist resistance to the u.$. occupation. This is a fact much different than what happened in Mao's China.
The Japanese imperialists followed up the Manchurian Incident in 1931 to take over the government of the Manchurian province of China. The people there were a mix of nationalities and the Manchu nationality had ruled the last dynasty of China as an ethnic minority above the majority Han people.
In contrast, in Afghanistan, there was similar division by rule of warlords but also a major division between the Taliban and Northern Alliance. The war for Afghanistan in 2001 immediately extended to all of Afghanistan.
The war in China focussed in one province until 1937 when Japan invaded the rest of China. Between 1931 and 1937, Chinese nationalism steadily built up. The self-proclaimed leader of China Chiang Kai-shek put his energy into defeating the communists and left Manchuria to Japan. This was to be his fatal mistake. He had spent all his years trying to exterminate all communists and the Chinese people noticed.
On December 12, 1936, Chiang Kai-shek's own generals kidnapped him and forced him to form a united front with Mao to fight for China. In the background, Stalin put pressure on Chiang Kai-shek as did the implicit Japanese versus U.$. imperialist rivalry.
Today, there is no such maneuvering in Afghanistan that MIM is aware of. In 2006, we have had our critics claiming to be Maoist point to documents from 1998 opposing the Taliban--three years before there was a U.$. invasion, and thus totally irrelevant. Yet such Afghan documents against the Taliban still have circulation today, because such circulation conforms to the wishes of u.$. imperialism and its lackeys. There has not been a single report of a communist attack on NATO forces in Afghanistan in five years of total occupation.
In contrast in China, major fighting against Japan took place right away. Japan also bombed Mao's main base area. Such circumstances contributed to China's nationalism.
Where are the communists fighting for national liberation of Afghanistan? The famous pro-Soviet communists that once ruled Afghanistan are now part of the u.$. puppet regime run by the Northern Alliance, also known as United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan. Maoists are not showing up yet, and that speaks poorly for us after five years of U.$/NATO occupation.
Note:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/10/28/afghan.fighting/index.html