Afghanistan: History Repeating Itself?
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Afghanistan Is the Graveyard of Empires
Afghanistan is necessarily the graveyard of empires, because it's part of all sorts of empires which run out of that region. It isn't that afghanistan inherently cannot be governed, but no western power has ever success governed there. Every puppet who has been placed there by either the east india company or the british rage have found this sort of growing nationalism and xenophobia exhibiting itself in incredibly dogged resistance. This was as true in 18 39 as it has been now. And just to jump ahead to the parallels, what is astonishing is the basicy we put the same guy in twice, because hamed karzi is the direct descendant o shashudmaoe put
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