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“Afghanistan’s arc from 9/11 to today: once hopeful, now sad” by Kathy Gannon

The text “Afghanistan’s arc from 9/11 to today: once hopeful, now sad” is an article from the newsmagazine AP written by Kathy Gannon. The article deals with the situation in Afghanistan during the time span between 9/11 2001 and the day US military decided to withdraw its troops and the Taliban took over Kabul, Afghanistan's capital. The article is written chronological, so the writer, Kathy Gannon, starts the article, by telling about 9/11 and how Afghans felt when the US-led coalition invaded Afghanistan. When the writer of the article tells some of the main things that happened in Afghanistan and how it had affected the Afghan people, she tells it with informative and a slightly twist of a subjective perspective. When the writer needs an Afghan perspective of how the civil war and some of the things followed by the war have affected Afghanistan and its people, she uses an Afghan citizen named Torek Farhadi, who fled from Afghanistan twice and came back, as an example, through the article and a survey

It is now three months since the US Army pulled out its soldiers from Afghanistan. USA’s presence in Afghanistan has been going on for three generations and has accompanied its scar on the Afghan country and its people. The country is now facing an uncertain and chaotic fate under the Taliban regime, and this applies to some of Afghanistan's citizens too. In the article “Afghanistan’s arc from 9/11 to today: once hopeful, now sad” does the writer of the article, Kathy Gannon, who is AP’s news director for Pakistan and Afghanistan, and had been covering Afghanistan for three decades, including the runup to and immediate aftermath of 9/11. She takes us through the story of Afghanistan since 9/11 to the day that US-army decided to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, with an informative and slightly subjective perspective.The text “Afghanistan’s arc from 9/11 to today: once hopeful, now sad” by Kathy Gannon it’s an article distributed through the newsmagazine AP-news. The article is written on the first of September 2021, the month after the US decided to withdraw its troops out of Afghanistan. The writer Kathy Gannon are AP’s news director for Pakistan and Afghanistan and had been covering Afghanistan for three decades, including the runup to and immediate aftermath of 9/11. This gives her and the article some credibility, when she explains something in the article. There is therefore ethos in the article. She also uses ethos in the article, which we see in the following lines: “The Taliban’s rule was not marked by attacks on women, but rather relentless repression that denied them a public space.” (..) “Afghanistan was considered one of the worst places in the world to be a woman in 2020 and in 2019, according to the Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security. In 2018, in a Gallup poll offered a scale of one to 10 to determine how respondents judged their chances for a better future five years down the road, Afghans averaged 2.3. Gallup called it a “new low for any country in any year.”” (Line 21-22 page 5, line 19-35, page 5). On these following lines, we see how she uses two authorities in the form of an institute, called Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security and a survey from Gallup poll to back her argument up that woman in Afghanistan are being suppressed. In the article Kathy Gannon takes us through the story of Afghanistan since 9/11 to the day that US-army decided to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, with an informative and slightly subjective perspective. The way Kathy describes the former situation in Afghanistan throughout the article leaves us with the narrative of an Afghanistan that got its scars after 30 years of war and is now left in chaos. This is stated at the end of the article where Kathy Gannon ends her article by referring to an Afghan person called Torek Fahradi, who is former adviser to the International Monetary Fund and a former economist at the World Bank and who now want to return to Afghanistan. The reference is as follows: “Keep a sharp eye on corruption. Create a level playing field for corruption free business. Let the women join the workforce; it will help households boost their finances. Call on the diaspora to come back, invest and help build the country. Avoid driving the country into isolation. It is the people who will end up paying the price of sanctions.” (Line 9-13, page 7). These things are some of the challenges Afghanistan is facing now to restore stability in the country after the war.