Americans, however, began to acknowledge that they had a moral responsibility to take a greater interest in trying to resolve ongoing conflict in Afghanistan. They simply cannot walk away from having spent $4 billion arming the Afghans. (Matinuddin, 1999, p.160)

Afghanistan is definitely a country that has not only been ruled by the West but also by the East. Each country has tried to dominate and control it to some degree for its own political gains. Afghanistan as a consequence has become ruptured and ended up in further turmoil as a consequence of the political upheaval it has been surrounded by. Matinuddin further reiterates that:

United States wants to keep the turmoil in Afghanistan brewing if only to show the world that the result of so−called fundamentalism is chaos and instability