It was a tragedy. Thousands of desperate Afghans storm the airport in Kabul. People clinging to a plane and plummeting to their deaths from great heights. These images became a symbol of the West's broken promises, a symbol of the failure of full-bodied declarations of humanitarian aid and social transformation.
The operation to rescue tens of thousands of alliance aid workers in an unprecedented military operation in August 2021 represents not only the failure of the West in Afghanistan, but also the end of the rule-based and norm-oriented world order shaped by liberal democracies. The West has unmasked itself in Afghanistan. The Taliban are back in power. How could the longest war in the history of Western democracies end in this disaster? How could it have come to this?
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Seliger, Marco
Title
Das Afghanistan Desaster. Warum wir am Hindukusch gescheitert sind
Details
Paperback, numerous bw-photos. 352 pages.
State
new
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