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Elizabeth Gould is author of Invisible History: Afghanistan’s Untold Story (co-author Paul Fitzgerald), available from City Lights Books and http://www.invisiblehistory.com.
We are regularly bombarded by news reports and political analysis that reflect certain underlying assumptions about Afghanistan. These assumptions range from claims that Afghanistan was always a backward state ruled by warlords, to assertions that the country was never really a nation at all, and proclamations that Afghanistan is unfit for Western-style democracy and that it is dangerously naïve to think otherwise.
