The White Man’s Burden in Afghanistan
December 19th, 2009
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Posted in: Afghanistan, Middle East, South Asia, United States
Tags: Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Kai Eide, Kurdistan, Peter Galbraith, Richard Holbroke
The Western predilections to know what’s best for South Asia and the Middle East are very much alive. This is 21st Century’s version of the “white man’s burden,” a frame of mind that manifested a purportedly superior wisdom on the part of white colonials about the future shape of governance in their colonies. [...]
