Afghanistan: History Repeating Itself?
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Are the Historical Parallels Too Good to Be True?
The world is different now, but history never repeats itself perfectly. There's certainly a very strong argument to be drawn from history that a western colonial adventure in afghanistan will not go down well. The foot soldiers of the taliban are the gilzi tribe who brought down shashuja in 18 forty two. So you can argue very strongly that beneath what we see when we look at afghanistan on our television screens, which is democratic, modern afghanistan being attacked by tribal savages with islamic fundamentalists and islamis views.
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