Afghanistan, One Defeat Breeds Another
August 15, 2021 Kabul has fallen, and it took the Taliban only a few weeks to sweep away the Afghan army, which had been financed and trained by the United States for twenty years. As a reminder, the communist regime had survived the withdrawal of the Red Army for three years. But the Afghan disaster, beyond a one-off defeat, is a sign of the fiasco of the “war on terror”. It was the spring of 1988, and we were gathered in Kabul. In a declaration by Mikhail Gorbachev, general secretary of (...)
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