Who are we fighting in Afghanistan?

[muriel_volestrangler]

23. You know whose side we're on in Afghanistan? The "brown people", as you beautifully put it

That's the actual people, as in the adult inhabitants who elected a government. The people they are fighting against are men (as opposed to the government and the electorate, which include women) who just want power without the hassle of needing anyone to agree with them. They just kill people, or threaten to, to get their way. As it happens, those people talk funny, even to each other, having several languages, but the violent men are less diverse. And nearly all of them worship differently from most of the USA, but we find that the nasty men with guns are the ones who hate those who worship a little differently from them, while the reasonable people in government are far more forgiving of religious differences.

There, that was simple, wasn't it? We're fighting the bad guys. That's what someone who wants to put it in simplistic terms needs to know.