POLS 375 Lecture Notes - Al-Qaeda, Asymmetric Warfare, Income Tax
9 Mar 2013
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Came to rising because of the soviets that made afghanistan so bad due to abuses, etc. With american air support and commando forces, they quickly drive the taliban out. When it comes to actual warfare, as opposed to asymmetrical warfare. In 2001, canada considered sending troops to afghanistan. Canada was looking for specific reasons: moral, etc. The worst thing about afghanistan in terms of canada"s involvement: The odds of succeeding was always going to be low. There was nothing to reconstruct when nothing was there. The primary reconstruction teams are completely and totally religiously different, with the exception of turkey, and they didn"t do that much. The reconstruction of countries like japan and germany involved war. During world war ii, the government stepped in and had price controls, etc. Income tax became a temporary measure and then became permanently. From a western perspective, in terms of realist security, afghanistan was a success.
