Anand Gopal Quotes
After the Soviet withdrawal, many Afghan Communists had rebranded themselves as Islamists and joined the mujahedeen.
Gopal, Anand. No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes. Metropolitan Books, 2014.
The military attack on the Taliban was a great success and the regime was ousted very rapidly. Once the regime was displaced, however, the military was faced with an extremely decentralized country with sporadic resistance from Taliban sympathizers and with the tough task of rebuilding the dilapidated country.
The Tea Party was a movement of ultra Conservatives who at first saw itself as a pressure and force on the major political parties. By design it was not highly organized and had no formal structure. The result was that anyone could purport to speak for the Tea Party. In this case, the document was drafted by Dick Armey, a former Republican Congressman. He and many Tea Party enthusiasts wanted to try and take over the Republican Party; other Tea Party people did not want that at all. It is hard to say that any of the signs, documents, slogans that were used had the support of even the majority of the Tea Party.
Duran has been the subject of major criticism and attack by many who regard the term as too prejudicial and inflammatory, that there is an automatic association in the term of all Islam and Fascism. While Duran’s position is that the term only applies to extremists who embrace values and actions that were consonant with Fascism, there are other Islamic critics who believe that basic Islam is Fascistic per se and the term should be applied to almost everything Islamic.
Some think that origination credit should go to Malise Ruthven who used the word in an article published in The Independent of September 8, 1990
The key security organizations of the Pakistan government had large numbers of radical Islamicists with great sympathy and close ties with the Islamic terrorists.
At first reading, this quotation appears to have been made in 2013 with respect to the American-led Coalition in the Afghan War in 2013. But this was 133 years earlier. Little had changed.
Anand Gopal is a journalist and author of No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War Through Afghan Eyes, which describes the travails of three Afghans caught in the war on terror. It was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction.
