At a news conference, Abdul Sattar, Pakistan's foreign minister, said, "We ourselves, learning lessons from history, knowing our brethren in Afghanistan and their fierce attachment to the independence of their country, did not in the past and will not in the future commit the blunder of trying to foist a government on the country".
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Psychologists call them "transitional objects" that help infants move from attachment to their mums to increasing independence.
A first point is that despite ethnic antagonisms, no Afghan ethnic group claims independence or seeks attachment to a neighboring country.
We strive for independence yet seek attachment to our digital devices.
Had we been better advised, probably war would not have followed the Declaration of Independence and we might now be, as is the case of Canada, cherishing attachment to the mother country, without exercising complete independence".
When Cyprus won independence and became a republic in 1960, the rival sides sought attachment to Turkey and Greece.
As Palestinians rightly demand their independence and emphasise that Israel must acknowledge their own deep history and attachment to the land, they should acknowledge the deep Jewish history in and connection to it as well.
In his great Farewell Address, he also gave some reasons why attachment to a foreign power, no matter how sentimental the affection, could only impair American liberty and independence and serve to draw the country into unnecessary wars.
It is also why people with no attachment to Southern identity, in America and around the world, still fall back on Confederate iconography to express their independence.
