Weekends: The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan w/ Tariq Ali
Jacobin Radio
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Afghanistan - The Taleban
If liberals and the left in afghanistan had created resistance organizations, if some of the women trained in gabol and gundeha would have fought back. The entire fight back was left to the taleban. So how could they not wen and within seven days, theyd rolled back a 20 year old occupation? And then the united states and the european press got very angry, saying that, well, they'd agreed to work in a transitional government. And the taleban replied, yes, we had, but where is your government? Its fled.
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