Robert’s Reviews > Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History > Status Update

"Post-conflict experts have gotten the prestige w/o the stigma of imperialism. Their implicit denial of the difference of cultures is the new brand of international intervention. Their policies fail but no one notices, and there is no one to take formal responsibility. Neo-colonialists' uselessness benefits them. By avoiding any serious action they re able to escape accusations of racism, exploitation, or oppression"

"Neither the Islamists nor Communists created countrywide links or built up a rural political base. Both had as their objective the seizure of the state apparatus so that they could use it and it's resources to implement their respective ideologies." Fatal mistake, as Guevara would tell you.