Tag: Afghanistan

Total Results: 64


Opium remains the country's most valuable cash crop (Photo by David Bathgate/Corbis via Getty Images)
14 Sep 2021 - 1:04am

Heroin will decide the Taliban’s fate Afghan power always stems from the poppy fields

David Patrikarakos

Monday, 13 September

13.09

How we failed Afghanistan You can only defeat terrorism by attacking its ideological roots

Caroline Fourest

Saturday, 11 September

11.09

How bin Laden won The American empire is finally crumbling

Aris Roussinos

Thursday, 9 September

09.09

Why Afghan women are fighting back America has betrayed the one positive legacy of 9/11

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Wednesday, 8 September

08.09

How 9/11 created the surveillance state We were promised an era of heroism — so where did it all go wrong?

Jacob Siegel

Tuesday, 7 September

07.09

How the neocons got away with it None of the Iraq War's cheerleaders has suffered career consequences

Razib Khan

Monday, 6 September

06.09

Washington was gripped by fear We wrongly characterise the post-9/11 years as a period of triumphalism

Justin Webb

Saturday, 4 September

04.09

We need to talk about 9/11 A short story about America's new enemies

Lionel Shriver

Wednesday, 1 September

01.09

We need more Pen Farthings There's a reason we're obsessed with alpacas and rescued Afghan cats

Peter Franklin

Monday, 30 August

30.08

Afghanistan always defeats the West A grasp of history might have prevented this disastrous war

William Dalrymple

Friday, 27 August

27.08

The media enabled Afghanistan’s collapse A gushing press corps made Biden feel invincible

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

27.08

Will Europe survive another migrant crisis? The EU is woefully unprepared for an influx of Afghans

Douglas Murray