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The Great Game and the Afghan Wars |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / FEATURE |
| Author: Jeffrey Meyers |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2002 |
| Size: 4,636 Words, 29,844 Characters |
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The disaster of September 11, 2001, has focused the attention of the world upon Afghanistan, an impoverished country in the grip of the Taliban, a repressive, secretive, and extremist Islamic group at the center of the world's heroin production. It is also the haven of al Qaeda, a deadly terrorist organization made up of men from other Muslim countries: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Algeria. Afghanistan's huge refugee population, mostly in Pakistan, increases daily. Its educated class has been killed or exiled, its people are starving, its women are completely imprisoned in a savagely medieval purdah. It was immediately apparent, in the wake of America's outrage over the attacks on the World Trade Center, that there was no justification for punishing the Afghan people, who are now living among ...
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...force, when all are unanimous in the determination to be free, is to attempt the imprisonment of a whole people: all such projects must be temporary and transient, and terminate in a catastrophe that force has ever to dread from the vigorous, ardent, concentrated vengeance of a nation outraged, oppressed, and insulted, and desperate with the blind fury of a determined and unanimous will." vbcrlf
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