[BITList] churchill and the taliban -- 8/18/14

Mon Aug 18 13:51:45 BST 2014

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Today's selection -- from /Chuchill's First War/ by Con Coughlin. The 
irresistible juxtaposition of young Winston Churchill and the Taliban:

"When the young Winston Churchill arrived at the North-West Frontier of 
the Indian Empire in the early autumn of 1897 he very quickly formed a 
low opinion of the Taliban. In Churchill's day, the 
great-great-grandfathers of those who created the modern Taliban 
movement were known as the Talib-ul-ilms, a motley collection of 
indigent holy men who lived off the goodwill and hospitality of the 
local Afghan tribes and preached insurrection against the British 
Empire. To Churchill's mind, these Talibs were, together with other 
local priestly figures such as the mullahs and fakirs, primarily 
responsible for the wretched condition of the local Afghan tribesfolk 
and their violent indisposition to foreign rule. In Churchill's view 
they were 'as degraded a race as any on the fringe of humanity: fierce 
as a tiger, but less cleanly; as dangerous, not so graceful'. He blamed 
the Talibs for the Afghans' lamentable absence of civilized development, 
keeping them in the 'grip of miserable superstition'. Churchill was 
particularly repelled by the Talibs' loose moral conduct. They lived 
free at the expense of the people and, 'more than this, they enjoy a 
sort of "/droit de seigneur/", and no man's wife or daughter is safe 
from them. Of some of their manners and morals it is impossible to write.'

*Winston Churchill, aged 19, as a second lieutenant in the Fourth 
Queen's Own Hussars*

"Churchill saw the conflict in even more apocalyptic terms when he 
published his first newspaper article on his experiences as a young 
British soldier locked in mortal combat with these fearsome Afghan 
tribesmen. 'Civilisation is face to face with militant Mohammedism,' he 
wrote. He entertained no doubts as to the conflict's ultimate outcome 
for, given the 'moral and material forces arrayed against each other, 
there need be no fear of the ultimate issue'. Even so, he lamented the 
warlike nature of the tribes who inhabited the mountainous no-man's land 
between Afghanistan to the north and British India to the south. Many 
tribes, the majority of them Pashtuns, lived in the wild but wealthy 
valleys that led from Afghanistan to India, but they were all of similar 
character and condition. Except when they were sowing or harvesting 
their crops, Churchill observed that a continual state of feud and 
strife prevailed throughout the land. 'Tribe wars with tribe. The people 
of one valley fight with those of the next. To the quarrels of 
communities are added the combats of individuals. Khan assails khan, 
each supported by his retainers. Every tribesman has a blood feud 
against his neighbour. Every man's hand is against the other, and all 
are against the stranger.' More than a hundred years later, when a new 
generation of Western soldiers deployed to Central Asia, they found that 
little had changed in the way the tribes of the Afghan frontier 
conducted themselves.

"In criticizing some of the Talibs' more depraved practices, Churchill 
conveniently overlooked the conduct of his own social milieu back in 
London, which could hardly be described as a cradle of virtuous 
rectitude. The loose moral values observed in certain upper-class 
circles of late-Victorian England were most famously embodied by the 
louche conduct of the Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII. A 
close family friend of the Churchills, 'Bertie' entertained a string of 
mistresses; one of his conquests was said to be Winston's mother Jennie, 
the wife of the Tory peer Lord Randolph Churchill and a notable society 
beauty. The American-born Jennie is credited with having had more than 
two hundred lovers of her own and was susceptible to the charms of young 
Guards officers who were barely older than Winston."

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Churchill's First War: Young Winston at War with the Afghans
Author: Con Coughlin
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Copyright 2013 by Con Coughlin
Pages: 1-2

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