The Empire 787

http://www.tni.org/multimedia/video-zone-turbulence-afghanistan

Eerste deel over Palestina/Israel,tweede deel over Afghanistan

Groet Jose

Video: The Zone of Turbulence: Afghanistan

Praful Bidwai

Michael Warschawski, Director of the Alternative Information Centre, Jerusalem

January 2011

Afghanistan is a classic instance of the political and military mess that empires leave behind.

Speech delivered at the International Conference on the Global Crisis and Hegemonic Dilemmas (New Delhi, Nov.8-10). [Speech by Bidwai starts in minute 34.]

Washington has commited to withdrawing from Afghanistan in July 2012, and leave everything to the Afghans by 2014. But whatever way one looks into it, Afghanistan is going to be a complete chaos. The only possible way out, argues Praful Bidwai, is taking a regional approach, with all countries in the region and Afghan civil society make a common effort to stabilise the country.

Praful Bidwai

Independent Journalist

TNI Fellow and former senior editor of The Times of India, Praful is a freelance journalist and insightful columnist for several leading newspapers in South Asia writing regularly on all aspects of Indian politics, economy, society and its international relations. He is an associate editor of Security Dialogue, published by PRIO, Oslo; a member of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists against Proliferation (INESAP) and co-founder of the Movement in India for Nuclear Disarmament (MIND).