Explanation
Afghanistan is used in the book as a strategic site within the Al-Qaeda network, and as an example of a war after September 11 that deepened humiliation rather than addressing the crisis. It is also one of the arenas that reveals the double standards of global politics.
Referred to by
- Afghanistan must be understood within a political network, not as an isolated targeting
- Selecting Al-Qaeda’s strategic locations
- Responses to terrorism reproduce power and increase isolation
- The war in Afghanistan deepened humiliation
- Linking bin Laden to Mullah Omar
- Arenas that reveal double standards
- Critique of the war on terror rejects all-out force and calls for calibrated global justice