Flawed Justice After a Mob Killed an Afghan Woman (Nytimes- Article)

http://nyti.ms/1Os0nPS
 The video below is incredibly violent. Please do not watch the it, if you can not handle it.

For me, this video was difficult to watch, and I am hesitant to post this video here because I don't want to be reminded of it. However, I don't want to run away from certain realities of the world.



Of the commentary I read, I liked this one the most. I don't know how to properly cite this person, so excuse me on my primitive copying.

"Contrary to what the article claims, this has NOT always been the norm in Afghanistan. I lived there in the 1970s and half my family is from there, and such a scene would have been unimaginable back then. 

This is what happens after 35 years of war, which began with the appalling Soviet invasion in 1979. The intelligentsia flees, and in Afghanistan, as in many poor country, there are almost only two classes: the elite and the poor. No real middle class. Once the educated, professionally experienced leave the scene, the country is delivered to the poor, which is where the religious fanatics are. You now have a huge mass of Afghans in the country who are illiterate, uneducated, destitute, radically religious, highly traditional, and misogynistic. 
In the 1970s, women with any social standing happily walked around without a veil, let alone the chaderi (the Afghan burka, usually blue), and the student body of Kabul University was 50% female. Things were moving forward. 
To this day I curse the Russians for blowing up that country, and I chastise the US for ending the Cold War on the back of a poor people by providing just enough military support to held the war drag on until the Soviets were bled out and left, defeated. The US deliberately did this and has not hidden that fact. The priority was to destroy the Russians and we did so at the cost of the Afghan people. Then, when that was done and the nation was totally ravaged by a decade of war, we just abandoned them."