Deja Vu

July 7th 2008, in Kabul was a day of nightmare for the people of Afghanistan. At around 8:30 A.M. a suicide bomber who was linked to the Taliban drove a car full of explosives into the entry gates of the Indian Embassy. The bombing killed 58 people and wounded 141. Afghanistan had to work to repair the damage and hoped that they would not have to deal with a devastating act like this again.

Flash forward to October of 2009. All repair of the damage that was caused last year by the Taliban had been completed recently and things were starting to get back to normal in Kabul. Then on the 8th of the same month at 8:27 A.M. a Taliban suicide bomber attacked the Indian Embassy in Kabul killing seventeen people and leaving 63 wounded. Now the Indian Embassy in Kabul has been attacked twice in the last year a half by the Taliban. Many believe these attacks occurred because of the tension between the people of Pakistan who are closely linked with the Taliban and the country of India and all ties with it.

These attacks really scare me. With the U.S. soldiers entering Afghanistan they must be aware of the Taliban. The Taliban are a vicious, cruel cold-hearted group that apparently don’t care about seeing a little bit of bloodshed. This attack affects the United States because the soldiers from the U.S. entering Afghanistan are at risk of being attacked in some way. The soldiers will have to be extremely careful of things such as roadside bombs. The Taliban apparently have no trouble setting off bombs in Afghanistan as they have let off explosives twice in the same place in the past year and a half. This bombing not only frightens the U.S. and the people of Afghanistan, but the whole world should now be afraid. The Taliban are looking for respect and it’s sad to say but they probably have earned it. The whole world should be conscious of the power of the Taliban. The people in Kabul could not prevent the same attack from happening twice. It shows how organized the Taliban are. If the Taliban were to overtake a country like Pakistan the world could be in trouble. Pakistan would be in control of nuclear weapons, which would not be a pretty sight. Hopefully as the U.S. troops enter Afghanistan they can avoid a Taliban attacks and protect innocent Afghanistan Ian people from a future attack.