The Use and Abuse of a Buffer State Part II
by CParenti
In Part One of Christian Parenti’s in-depth examination of Afghanistan (The Advocate, December 2008), the author argues that the country was used as a trampoline for the George W. Bush administration to jump into Iraq. In the process, Parenti asserts, Afghanistan was made to serve as an ideological “buffer state,” or the “seemingly ‘legitimate’ defensive war […]
