{"id":38137,"date":"2022-07-12T08:26:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T06:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=38137"},"modified":"2022-08-08T00:29:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T22:29:00","slug":"afghanistan-on-the-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/afghanistan-on-the-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan on the Divide"},"content":{"rendered":"The Western allies' war against the Taliban in Afghanistan has been going on for 20 years. Not only has it resulted in a humanitarian disaster, but the \u2039War on Terror\u203a is a war of mindsets. Different cultural developments clash. Democracy and enlightenment cannot be applied imperialistically. They emerge from a process. Looking back illustrates the diversity of cultures and raises the question, in terms of Spiritual Science, of how aggression can be healed today.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe were stunned to see it in the media: after the withdrawal of US and allied troops from Afghanistan, the country was quickly conquered by the Taliban, and the capital Kabul fell into their hands in a flash. The government which was supported by the West dissolved. The Afghan army, trained and equipped by the West, sur<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western allies&#8217; war against the Taliban in Afghanistan has been going on for 20 years. Not only has it resulted in a humanitarian disaster, but the \u2039War on Terror\u203a is a war of mindsets. Different cultural developments clash. Democracy and enlightenment cannot be applied imperialistically. They emerge from a process. Looking back illustrates the diversity of cultures and raises the question, in terms of Spiritual Science, of how aggression can be healed today. We were stunned to see it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9162,"featured_media":33273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8822,8790],"tags":[9236,8798],"class_list":["post-38137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-society-en","tag-2021-37-en","tag-deepening"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}