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Pierre Lellouche: "The American fiasco in Afghanistan marks the definitive failure of '' state building ''"

8/22/2021, 6:07:28 PM


INTERVIEW - Former special representative of France for Afghanistan and Pakistan under the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy, the specialist in international and defense issues analyzes the historical scope of the humiliation of the United States in Kabul and its very consequences. .

Pierre Lellouche is a former Secretary of State for European Affairs and former President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

LE FIGARO.

- The Americans, at the end of 2001 in Afghanistan, once the Taliban were driven out of power, had declared the objective of building a state and democratic institutions.

This ambition of a “state building” has just been shattered.

When was this concept born?

Pierre LELLOUCHE.

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The concept of "state building" is indeed, with the Afghan people, the main victim of the Taliban victory.

In his August 16 televised address, President Biden did not hesitate to lie openly, saying:

“Our mission in Afghanistan has never been to build a nation.

It was never meant to create a centralized unified democracy. ”

Yet it is thus, with the liberation of Afghan women as the standard bearer, that these twenty years of perfectly sterile war in Afghanistan were sold to Western opinion, the dead in

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