History The grey war The beginning of the Soviet war in Afghanistan in 1979 marked a new phase in the Cold War‚ the effects of which would continue to cast a shadow over modern politics into the next millennium. The Soviet-Afghan war was driven by the persistent personalities of US National Security Advisor‚ Zbigniew Brzezinski‚ his puppet president‚ Jimmy Carter‚ and Soviet leader‚ Leonid Brezhnev. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan flipped Cold War politics on its head. The war was a clash of
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senseless slaughter of our citizens." Said by Barack Obama on May 2nd‚ after the death of Osama Bin Laden‚ the former leader of al Qaeda. That was the start of the "end" of the war on terrorism. How could this be‚ with still 99‚000 U.S. troops still in Afghanistan? What are they doing over there in the desserts of the Middle East‚ having a party? No‚ they are dying for the war on terrorism‚ but the real world does not want to accept that fact‚ because they are too stubborn to realize that the war on terrorism
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has conflict had on Afghanistan? What impacts has conflict had on Afghanistan? The Afghanistan war began in 2001 after the intervention of the U.S into the Afghanistan civil war after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. The Afghan Civil War began before that in 1992 but the full intervention of the Western World and its allies began only after the terrorist attack on the U.S. Many things in Afghanistan were impacted due to the conflict taking place in Afghanistan such as the economy
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between the two major powers‚ leading to what some have called the Second Cold War a term originated from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan on December 24th 1979. This war lasted through the Reagan administration. At the time few were able to realize the lasting geopolitical impacts of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. It can be argued that the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan changed the political and military landscape of not only the principals involved‚ but also created a dramatic shift in the Middle
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First Essay: The cold war between the United States and Russia and how Afghanistan was used as a pawn In the following essay I would like to discuss the Cold war between the United States and Russia and how Afghanistan was used as a pawn. The Cold War was the most important political and diplomatic issue of the latter half of the 20th Century. The main enemies were the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold war got its name because both sides were afraid of fighting each other directly.
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Why Did the Soviet Union Lose the War in Afghanistan? Roxanne C. Jones Politics 300‚ Section 003016 Why Did the Soviet Union Lose the War in Afghanistan? ‘Do you think you are going to win?’ ‘Yes‚ yes of course.’ ‘What makes you think so? What makes you think you are going to win?’ ‘I believe we are going to win. It’s evident!’ (Panjshairi commander Ahmad Shah Massoud in an interview from the French prize-winning documentary film ‘Valley against an Empire’ by Jerome Bony and Christophe de Ponfilly
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Take for example the Koran‚ in which to a western ear sounds like a song. However‚ the recitation of Koran according to Afghanistan isn’t music. In Afghanistan “the concept of music is closely linked with musical instruments….Unaccompanied singing in itself is not labelled as “music”(Baily 21). There cultural representation of music varies from the westernized interpretation of music‚ however
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capability to develop strong‚ fit and to be positive when something bad happens. During 40 years of civilization war‚ Afghanistan people had been overextended and perverse a lot mothers and fathers lost their children’s countless women lost their partners‚ numerous people lost their friends and several brothers lost their sisters. Due to that happen the population of Afghanistan‚ some became crazy and once they saw their family gone‚ and many people fell in to different mental diseases‚ such as
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According to a survey by Thompson Reuters Foundation‚ Afghanistan is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be born a woman. (No Country for Women). Afghanistan as a country has been through major trials and tribulations but the women always gets the most of the damage. And even a little more than a decade later after Taliban has fallen some of the same laws still apply and the women are still suffering. From 1996-2001 Afghanistan was under the rule of the Taliban‚ an islamic militant
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Themes from Stones into Schools The institution of education in many regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan is virtually nonexistent. Many girls don’t have access to schools (Stones into Schools p.4) and those that do usually don’t graduate from high school. While Greg Mortenson’s Stones into Schools and the documentary The Miseducation of Pakistan deal with two different areas‚ they both show many similar themes. One major recurring theme that is evident in both Stones into Schools and The Miseducation
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