{"id":385666,"date":"2021-11-12T09:58:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T09:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=223319"},"modified":"2021-11-12T09:58:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T09:58:16","slug":"the-forty-years-war-tariq-ali-and-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/11\/12\/the-forty-years-war-tariq-ali-and-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Forty Years War: Tariq Ali and Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warring factions, shifting alliances, the incomptence and corruption of the Karzai regime installed by the US, all this and more was kept from reporters or, we may guess, most did not want to know. The billions of dollars of aid never reached ordinary Afghanis, quite the reverse: the rich became richer while the poor suffered more and more deprivations. The NGOs, swarming but taking their orders from afar, living within heaquarters and constructed neighborhoods with no relation to the rest of the country, soon had to hire mercernaries to protect then when they ventured outward. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/11\/12\/the-forty-years-war-tariq-ali-and-afghanistan\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/11\/12\/the-forty-years-war-tariq-ali-and-afghanistan\/\">The Forty Years War: Tariq Ali and Afghanistan<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\"><br>\r\nThis content originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/11\/12\/the-forty-years-war-tariq-ali-and-afghanistan\/\" >CounterPunch.org<\/a> and was authored by Paul Buhle.  <br><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/11\/12\/the-forty-years-war-tariq-ali-and-afghanistan\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warring factions, shifting alliances, the incomptence and corruption of the Karzai regime installed by the US, all this and more was kept from reporters or, we may guess, most did not want to know. The billions of dollars of aid never reached ordinary &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,228,266,27150],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385706,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385666\/revisions\/385706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}