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Jacques Julliard: "The twilight of the West"

2021-09-05T18:24:56.766Z


CHRONICLE - The humiliating victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan comes against a backdrop of global decline in democracy. Europe out of tune no longer manages to make its voice heard, worries the historian and essayist *, whom our readers find every first Monday of the month.


My beginning can be said very quickly, because it hardly suffers from discussion, and has moreover been widely covered in the international press.

It reads as follows: the United States was not defeated in Kabul, since it did not fight.

They only dishonored themselves.

France is the last to be able to reproach them, since it did the same in 1962, when General de Gaulle abandoned the harkis to the retribution of the FLN.

How many died, victims of torture and lynching, similar to what is promised to the Afghan collaborators of the West, despite the good words of the Taliban?

By the thousands, by the tens of thousands, no doubt.

Second lieutenant in Algeria, a longtime supporter of its independence, I saw the harkis, the village chiefs that we had drawn into a dead end war, cling to the trucks of the French army, as today Afghans to US Air Force planes.

I will never forget the look of these unfortunate people.

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Source: lefigaro

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