Posts tagged: afghanistan

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  'So, Was It Worth It?' - An extract from Tariq Ali's 'The Forty Year War in Afghanistan'

  Shortly after the US invasion of Afghanistan, Tariq Ali exchanged a series of letters with Mike O'Brien, the UK Minister of Trade. The correspondence is a fascinating window into the imperial fantasies of the New Labour government in the early days of that doomed adventure.

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  A Continuum of Intervention

  Ayça Çubukçu outlines the logic of humanitarian intervention that has dominated the US approach to international affairs for the last thirty years and asks whether the US withdrawal from Afghanistan marks the end of this paradigm.