{"id":4783,"date":"2022-11-10T12:18:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T12:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/veranstaltung\/das-endlose-afghanistan-desaster-warum-wir-heute-sind-wo-wir-sind"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:18:19","slug":"the-endless-afghanistan-disaster-why-we-are-where-we-are-today","status":"publish","type":"kreisky_event","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/veranstaltung\/das-endlose-afghanistan-desaster-warum-wir-heute-sind-wo-wir-sind","title":{"rendered":"THE ENDLESS AFGHANISTAN DISASTER - WHY WE ARE WHERE WE ARE TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/85793973466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ZOOM Live<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kreiskyforum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook Live<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Gudrun Harrer in conversation with Emran Feroz<\/h4>\n<h4>THE ENDLESS AFGHANISTAN DISASTER<\/h4>\n<h4>Why we are where we are today<\/h4>\n<p>Afghanistan has been ruled by the militant Islamist Taliban again for over a year. We remember: on 15 August 2021, the extremists invaded the capital while the last president of the Afghan republic, Ashraf Ghani, fled abroad and the USA and its allies were busy withdrawing their troops. But how did that fateful day come about and what did the Americans\u201e \u201clongest war\" in the Hindu Kush actually achieve?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emran Feroz<\/strong> is a freelance journalist, war reporter and author. He has been reporting from and about Afghanistan for almost ten years and writes for the US magazine Forein Policy, CNN, the New York Times, Profil and Der Spiegel. In 2021, Feroz's bestseller \u2018The Longest War\u201e was published, in which he critically and in great detail analyses 20 years of <em>War on Terror<\/em> analysed in Afghanistan. In the same year, Feroz was honoured for his work with the Austrian Concordia Prize in the human rights category.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gudrun Harrer<\/strong>, Senior Editor, Der Standard; Lecturer for Modern History and Politics of the Near and Middle East at the University of Vienna and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Emran Feroz: The longest war: 20 years <\/em>War on Terror<br \/>\n<em>Westend, ISBN 3864893283, \u20ac 18,50,-<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZOOM Live \/ Facebook Live Gudrun Harrer im Gespr\u00e4ch mit Emran Feroz DAS ENDLOSE AFGHANISTAN-DESASTER Warum wir heute sind, wo wir sind Seit \u00fcber einem Jahr wird Afghanistan wieder von den militant-islamistischen Taliban regiert. Wir erinnern uns: Am 15. August 2021 fielen die Extremisten in die Hauptstadt ein, w\u00e4hrend der letzte Pr\u00e4sident der afghanischen Republik, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4784,"template":"","format":[32],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"schwerpunkt":[43],"class_list":["post-4783","kreisky_event","type-kreisky_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","schwerpunkt-internationale-politik-europa-und-sicherheit","format-hybrid"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DAS ENDLOSE AFGHANISTAN-DESASTER - WARUM WIR HEUTE SIND, WO WIR SIND - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/event\/the-endless-afghanistan-disaster-why-we-are-where-we-are-today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DAS ENDLOSE AFGHANISTAN-DESASTER - WARUM WIR HEUTE SIND, WO WIR SIND - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ZOOM Live \/ Facebook Live Gudrun Harrer im Gespr\u00e4ch mit Emran Feroz DAS ENDLOSE AFGHANISTAN-DESASTER Warum wir heute sind, wo wir sind Seit \u00fcber einem Jahr wird Afghanistan wieder von den militant-islamistischen Taliban regiert. 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