{"id":18968,"date":"2021-08-27T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=18968"},"modified":"2022-01-04T12:23:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T17:23:56","slug":"why-we-need-to-stop-calling-afghanistan-the-graveyard-of-empires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2021\/08\/27\/why-we-need-to-stop-calling-afghanistan-the-graveyard-of-empires\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we need to stop calling Afghanistan &#8220;The Graveyard of Empires&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cAttributing imperial failures in Afghanistan, whether historical or current, to a combination of what Nivi Manchanda (in her Imagining Afghanistan) calls a \u201ctrans-historical, congenital Afghan predisposition\u201d and \u201cgeographic determinism,\u201d obscures more than it reveals: It prevents any serious analysis of why America and its allies\u2019 20-year mission failed so badly. It precludes drawing any lessons from their experiences there. And it forestalls any moral reckoning for either the damage inflicted by the occupation or the harms that will inevitably result from our withdrawal. After all, it was broken when we got here.\u201c More <a href=\"https:\/\/ajammc.com\/2021\/08\/24\/stop-calling-afghanistan-graveyard-empires\/?fbclid=IwAR1hH6Y4vRu1r2VV3lJIu7lMmYJ0H9pyRnpicV_G4XHxXs6nDrtvfqfLaH8\">here<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAttributing imperial failures in Afghanistan, whether historical or current, to a combination of what Nivi Manchanda (in her Imagining Afghanistan) calls a \u201ctrans-historical, congenital Afghan predisposition\u201d and \u201cgeographic determinism,\u201d obscures more than it reveals: It prevents any serious analysis of why America and its allies\u2019 20-year mission failed so badly. It precludes drawing any lessons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2021\/08\/27\/why-we-need-to-stop-calling-afghanistan-the-graveyard-of-empires\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why we need to stop calling Afghanistan &#8220;The Graveyard of Empires&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18969,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18968\/revisions\/18969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}