The Ascent of Intervention-in-Afghanistan Man
John Ditchburn
Generations of foreign forces have gone into Afghanistan and left again, defeated. John Ditchburn’s simple sequence uses a Darwinian theme to suggest the makers of those wars have evolved very little as each ventured afresh into the graveyard of empires. It implies a failure to learn from history.
- Karen Middleton, guest curator
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