Tessa Szyszkowitz in dialog with Tariq Ali
THE FORTY-YEAR WAR IN AFGHANISTAN: A CHRONICLE FORETOLD
The occupation of Afghanistan is over, and a stability sheet may be drawn. Not often has there been such an enthusiastic show of worldwide unity as that which greeted the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. In comparison with Iraq, Afghanistan turned the “good warfare.” However a stalemate ensued, and the Taliban waited out the NATO contingents. In the present day, with the collapse of the regime in Kabul, the takeover of the Taliban and the messy retreat of the US, UK and allied forces in August 2021, what does the longer term maintain for a traumatised Afghan individuals? Will China grow to be the dominant affect within the nation?
In his newest ebook the British-Pakistani creator Tariq Ali presents his essays on warfare and peace within the area. Tariq Ali has been following the wars in Afghanistan for forty years. He opposed Soviet army intervention in 1979, predicting catastrophe. He was additionally a fierce critic of its NATO sequel, Operation Enduring Freedom. In a collection of trenchant commentaries, he has described the tragedies inflicted on Afghanistan, in addition to the semi-Talibanisation and militarisation of neighbouring Pakistan. Most of his predictions have proved correct. The Forty-12 months Struggle in Afghanistan: A Chronicle Foretold brings collectively the most effective of his writings and features a new introduction.
“Ali’s dialogue of Afghanistan is very precious due to the questions it raises … a place to begin for a much-needed debate.” New York Instances
Tariq Ali has written greater than two-dozen books on world historical past and politics—the latest of that are The Conflict of Fundamentalisms, The Obama Syndrome and The Excessive Centre—in addition to the novels of his Islam Quintet and scripts for the stage and display screen. He’s a long-standing member of the editorial committee of New Left Evaluation and lives in London.
„Ali stays an outlier and mental bomb-thrower, an urbane, Oxford-educated polemicist.” — The Observer
Tariq Ali, author, historian and filmmaker member of the editorial committee of the New Left Evaluation and Sin Permiso,
Tessa Szyszkowitz, Writer and Journalist for PROFIL, Falter and Cicero. She can be Senior Affiliate Fellow on the Royal United Providers Institute in London.
ZOOM Dwell Discuss, January 25, 2022
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