ABSTRACT
Cold war created a vacuum in Afghanistan where most people adopted violence as part of life and it became the nature to be aggressive. One has to remember that living conditions are extreme in Afghanistan and nature has always been unkind to them; thus by nature they are tough people and that toughness is part of the personae. The social issues that Afghanistan is facing and are attracting so much attention are due to their unceasing exposure to the means of violence. Every society’s development depends on its quest for knowledge but the Afghan society’s quest starts and ends at maintaining its existence. While the Russian occupation forces tried to develop some kind of social structure in the Afghan society, the US forces supported a movement which used religion as the means of violence for dismantling the Russian occupation. The problem in Afghanistan is to develop that progressive will in the hearts of the majority.
