A few days ago we passed the 10-year anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan, which
began in early October, 2001, less than one month after 9/11. After about one month of fighting, close to Remembrance Day in November, Kabul fell and victory was all but declared. Then in December well before Christmas, after less than one more month of sporadic fighting, and less than three months after 9/11, Afghanistan was put on the path to its bright new future with western-backed Hamid Karzai as its interim transitional leader. The Taliban and Al-Qaeda had been defeated, and many more good things — security, development, governance, and the emancipation of women and girls — were promised by the West in what many would call “the good war.”
On Monday, October 17, the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto presents a Public Issues Forum: On the very idea of a good war: Afghanistan ten years in
The event is free and open to the public.
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Monday, October 17, 2011
3:00 pm – Panel presentations
4:30 pm – Q&A/discussion
5:30 pm – Reception
Cartwright Hall
(1st floor, St. Hilda’s Residence, Trinity College, 44 Devonshire Place)