A reading recommendation for understanding the recent Taliban victories in Afghanistan

You eventually read the news of the Taliban’s victories in Afghanistan. The essential question is: how the Taliban could arrive at these triumphs after 21 years of their reversal in 2001? Why are the dreams of the foundation of a democracy in Afghanistan falling apart? We have a response: democracy is a process; it cannot be produced by war. For understanding the nature of the problem in Afghanistan, I introduce to you the book of John Cooly “Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism.” In this book the author explains how the Taliban movements in Afghanistan were formed.

This book is an important and well known source for the origins of extremism in Afghanistan. Cooly argument is remarkably interesting. How does the intervention of Mondial’s powers reinforce jihadism in the world? He begins his narrative of the constitution of the extremism Islamite by the catastrophic event of December 1979: soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the conquest of this country during the cold war. The occupation of Afghanistan was a big trap for Mosco and the war in Afghanistan became a Vietnam for the Soviets. Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor, favored the entry of the Soviet’s Communist Party to this great cashmere. The United States and its Western allies also have supported the Jihadist groups to strike the final blow on their rival in a bipolar world.

The author begins with this war and then arrives to the event of the September 11 attacks. He argues how the Macivelist policy resulted in the strengthening of jihadism and jihadism became a global problem to the point that its control is impossible. Cooly’s description of this war is utterly bitter because it mentions the effects of this war on the collapse of Afghanistan. The funding of jihadist groups has weakened the nation-state of the country and fostered fundamentalism. Afghanistan has become a matter of the intervention of different regional and mondial powers. Each country was looking for their interests in a marsh of war. When a reporter asked Brzezinski if you are not afraid of the development of Jihadism, he replied: the end of a long war is not more important than a life of the few men?

With this book, Colley takes us to the depths of history to show us the theoretical roots of fundamentalism in the Middle East. It refers to a lot of events that provoked extremism. He criticizes the support of Western states for authoritarian secular powers which have limited public resources and weakened democracies. For any researcher, it will be necessary to analyze the development of jihadism in a deep and radical way. According to him we cannot close our eyes to the role of the world powers, in particular the United States in the formation of a public problem at the world level.

I recommend this book because it provides you with the required information about jihadism in the Middle East, and it gives you a point of view about the complexity of this problem. This book invites you to have a regard multidimensional for knowing the phenomena of jihadism and the Taliban movement in Afghanistan.