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Who's Afraid of the Taliban? with Ahmed-Waleed Kakar

The Thinking Muslim

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The American Failure in Afghanistan

The Afghan national identity was very much formulated according to Islam and forged by the circumstances of foreign invasion, principally the British. The modern Afghan state that came out of the ashes of a previous Afghan empire was very much characterized by an inherent suspicion towards British and Russian imperialism. Why did the Americans fail in Afghanistan? I think ultimately it comes down to legitimacy.

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