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Afghanistan: a history of instability

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Islamic Fundamentalism, as Perceived From the West, Is a Problem of Islamic Fundamentalists

What i think happened in the last month has strong parallels to what happened in iran 19 79, where you had what on the surface looked like a religious revolution. The taliban see themselves as an islamic emerad but behind that lay a whole bundle of social, cultural and economic grievances. There were a lot of people in afghanistan felt a small elite in carbull were a devouring resources that were being poured in. And it was very striking when you went to afghanistan any time the last 20 years, that despite the many trillion dollars arriving in the country a year in, year outthe wasn't even a single a road in the country didn't have poth

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