Day: 24 August 2021

Aljazeera says the Taliban blitzkrieg that dismantled 20 years of neocon and liberal imperialism in Afghanistan has also marked an ignoble end to all manners of pretences. Twenty years ago, the US pretended it was going to Afghanistan to dismantle the Taliban

The New York Times says Taliban fighters brandished Kalashnikovs and shook their fists in the air after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, defying American warnings that if they did not hand over Osama Bin Laden, their country would be bombed to smithereens.