If one looked at the past history,from Alexander the Great to the Sun Never sets British empire the Afghan region has been an enigma bundled in a riddle.The hardy Afghans who inhabit most of the wild and wretched and trecherous mountain regions have never bowed to any organized authority ever.They are incapable of thinking like what US wants them to about the rest of the world.What really is important is stabilizing the semi-urban areas where moderate Afghans want to live quietly and with sprinkling of acceptable modernity.Once prosperity of some sort creeps in the message will go to the outreaches driving people from the clutches of the warlords and Taliban towards better grounds.This will take not one or two but several decades.In the meanwhile if opium cultivation is banished and the drug trade eradicated,there might be some hope.Opium wars have been waged in Asia and the source was Afghanistan through the silk road.

It is naive to show some clips about children going to school or women working at an office and make the world believe that everything is fine in that land.The west might convert some urban spots and for TV footage make it appear changed.

In all seriousness what is required is not force but understanding and appreciating that each community or tribe has its own ways,however ridiculous it might appear in comparison.It must be understood that most Afghans do not know anything called rights beyond the way the community allows them to live and this is decided by Men who control thought process.It is they who need to be tackled and brought around and not some poor young gun totting brain washed bunches.

Right wing or left wing the issue is about the health of a citizen or resident of a nation and the way care should flow.As W.Churchill rightly stated fire is what needs to be put out and there can be no distinction in the effort.

Strangely among the richest nations of the world,USA has its peculiarities and loves to be arrogantly different.If one took a simple example like communication technology where US has remained a decade behind even emerging countries of Asia.

I have read several novels and short stories based on the lives of doctors in small towns in the US and how their lives changed with insurance companies offering health cover.The manufacturing giants and insurance companies joined first to make providing of health care to employees and their family a formality and put barriers and hurdles on the treatment and costs to be covered and met.The family physician disappeared and became a business man associated with corporatized health care.The drug companies saw the opportunity and jumped in to make large gains with exorbitant pricing structures for life saving drugs.Profiteering was the way to go and so health care the subject of so much meat and cream for several interest groups simply forgot that all Citizens have the same rights under the laws of the land and are subject to the same treatment for violation of any.

England,France,Germany,Canada,Scandinavia and other smaller European nations regarded the health of all citizens as a matter of national importance and profiteering at the cost of someones health condition never appealed.

With the inter twined relationship among the interest groups responsible for health care that slowly destroyed concern and compassion the US has to work very hard to look at health care in the correct perspective.

We have several charitable hospitals in India,a poor and emerging nation,where the most modern and best available care is provided free of cost.The Satya Sai Trust has provided free open heart,brain,kidney,liver,cancer and other surgeries including transplants in many cases.Of course there is a waiting period for surgeries unless it is exceptionally threatening.

With all the churches,faiths,beliefs and groups that are hugely bloated with funds it is simply possible to make health care available.If American churches and missions run hospitals successfully in poorer countries why not at home? Why can't these people be associated in the reform agenda so that they can give ideas of cost effectiveness and expedition.

If nothing else,countries like,India,Thailand,Singapore will become health tourism destination and compete better with Mexico and other smaller Latin American nations to attract middle class Americans needing affordable care with expertise to back.