Unlike Iraq, in Afghanistan an international consensus supports common goals for the entire operation, providing a test of whether the ‘international community’ is capable of effective joint action to make societies secure, even when their insecurity threatens the whole world. So far the results indicate that governments and international institutions are not up to the job.
Keywords:
United States,
Afghanistan,
Bonn,
Agreement,
Taliban,
Marshall,
Fahim,
Pakistan,
Harmid,
Karzai
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