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Blood Washing Blood - Afghanistan's Hundred-Year War (Paperback)
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Blood Washing Blood - Afghanistan's Hundred-Year War (Paperback)
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Loot Price R496
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A clear-eyed view of the conflict in Afghanistan and its
century-deep roots. The war in Afghanistan has consumed vast
amounts of blood and treasure, causing the Western powers to seek
an exit without achieving victory. Seemingly never-ending, the
conflict has become synonymous with a number of issues - global
jihad, rampant tribalism, and the narcotics trade - but even though
they are cited as the causes of the conflict, they are in fact
symptoms. Rather than beginning after 9/11 or with the Soviet
"invasion" in 1979, the current conflict in Afghanistan began with
the social reforms imposed by Amanullah Amir in 1919. Western
powers have failed to recognize that legitimate grievances are
driving the local population to turn to insurgency in Afghanistan.
The issues they are willing to fight for have deep roots, forming a
hundred-year-long social conflict over questions of secularism,
modernity, and centralized power. The first step toward achieving a
"solution" to the Afghanistan "problem" is to have a clear-eyed
view of what is really driving it.
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