POL312Y1 Lecture Notes - Joint Task Force 2, Pashtuns
Document Summary
Origins of war in afghanistan are inseparable from 9/11: different from the invasion of iraq, before the 9/11, afghanistan was out of western interest. The taliban was not directly involved in 9/11. Afghanistan was targeted because they refused to give up al qaeda. Canada: canada provided naval dispatches, etc participated pretty actively, terrorist attacks by non-state actors (not afghanistan but al. Qaeda: oct 4, 2001 nato article 5, oct 2001 jtf-2 and nay, jan feb 2002 ppcli deploy. The border doesn"t really exist on the real map. British put the line pashtun people formed the. Taliban because of the border that the british created in order to be not governed by unwanted people: isaf. Nato mandated an operation for the afghanistan state. Counterinsurgency: invading iraq was the least popular in quebec, official justification of the war. Rebuild afghan so they don"t make another terror. Security and development for afghan closely related to above.
