Back to a Backwater: Why Afghanistan Matters Little to the West
Absent a major, credible transnational terrorist threat, Afghanistan has returned to where it should have always been: a peripheral concern of the United States and the West.
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Absent a major, credible transnational terrorist threat, Afghanistan has returned to where it should have always been: a peripheral concern of the United States and the West.
At least 7,000 evacuated from Afghanistan last year are still in a temporary refuge in the United Arab Emirates. They have no idea if or when they’ll leave.
At least 7,000 evacuated from Afghanistan last year are still in a temporary refuge in the United Arab Emirates. They have no idea if or when they’ll leave.
WITH the ongoing war in Afghanistan seemingly of little interest to much of the British media, journalist Joe Glenton’s new documentary is very welcome. Having served in Kandahar with the British army in 2006 before going Awol and refusing to fight in the war, Glenton returns to Afghanistan to try to uncover the truth about shadowy death squads operating in the country. Visiting Kabul and Jalalabad, he speaks to the family of victims, researchers, dissident and former MP Malalai Joya and government officials. The 25-minute film highlights how raids supposedly targeting Taliban and al-Qaida ...