Afghanistan Special: Isolationism & Leading by Example. Part 2 of 3.

We are defending the enlightenment.

International relations specialist Dr Roger Townshend, Poet and theologian Alex Brocklehurst, and philosopher Dr Ray Scott Percival take a deep dive into the Afghanistan crisis and place it in broad historical perspective.

Talking Points:

1. The wider impact of the crisis.
2. The relationship between the Taliban and the terrorist groups of Al Qaeda and others.
3. Occupying foreign cultures by force is incompatible with Enlightenment Values.
4. China and Russia.
5. Withdrawal: A Defeat or Advance for Enlightenment?
6. Spreading Liberty by Force is confusing and self-defeating.
7. Media: Mainstream Media versus more perspectives through the new media.
8. Noam Chomsky.
9. Strategic thinking undistorted by ideology or Media Agendas: the congruence of the ancient wisdom of Sun Tzu and the state-of-the-art thinking of professor Robert Pape. (See his book Dying to Win.)
10. A Crack in the Mainstream Media: some elements started questioning the occupation, but then closed ranks, resuming an imperialistic narrative.