
Critiquing the War in Afghanistan with Mike Martin
Warfare
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Afghanistan - The Story of a Civil War
The conflict in Afghanistan has been going on for about 200 years. It was a multi focal civil war, with thousands of different wars happening at the same time. Actors who are fighting their own little wars appeal to outsiders and get resources out of us. Theiro walk about without veils, whatever they spin the ideological narrative. They then get their weapons. This enables village a and village b to try and fight their battle over this watercourse. And it doesn't really matter who moves first, whether it's the government or the side going to the talaban. What drives the conflict o these underlying splits over land and water. So to come back to your question, was that war over
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