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153 | Amy Chua: How Tribalism Set the World on Fire After 9/11

The Realignment

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Afghanistan: Democracyis Not Working Out for Us

Afghanistan has at least 14 ethnac groups, and the largest three are the postunes, the tajiks and the uspeks. And when we invaded two thousand we miss the fact that the talibon is not just an islamic fundamentalist movement, but also a largely ethnic movement. The poshtuns had ruled the country for hundreds of years. But then during the cold war, they started to lose their dominance under the russians. It was against that background that the talebon emerged. We didn't realise qeak as an ethnic component. To make a long story short, we got played by pacaston because in, you know, back in the

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