---
title: 'Coalition leaflet: ''Friendship'' handshake between America and Afghanistan (Afghanistan, 2001)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/afghanistan-us-leaflet-friendship-handshake-2001/
description: Two clasped hands between a US-flag map and a flag-coloured map of Afghanistan, with a smiling American family at left and an Afghan family at right.
section: Collection
---

1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/)
2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)
3. Coalition leaflet: 'Friendship' handshake between America

[![Coalition leaflet: 'Friendship' handshake between, 2001 US leaflet: Two clasped hands between a US-flag map](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/afghanistan-us-leaflet-friendship-handshake-2001.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/afghanistan-us-leaflet-friendship-handshake-2001.jpg)

# Coalition leaflet: 'Friendship' handshake between America and Afghanistan (Afghanistan, 2001)

Two clasped hands between a US-flag map and a flag-coloured map of Afghanistan, with a smiling American family at left and an Afghan family at right; the headline is 'Friendship'. Per the file page the back says no one should tell Afghans how to live and that a 'Partnership of Nations' will rescue them from 'Taliban criminals and foreign terrorists'. The tell is warmth carried by symbols and one virtue word.

## Propaganda techniques used in this leaflet

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights

[← Coalition leaflet: 'Drive out the foreign terrorists', with a Taliban beating a woman (Afghanistan, 2001)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/afghanistan-us-leaflet-drive-out-foreign-terrorists-2001/) [Coalition leaflet: 'Taliban, we know where you are' (Afghanistan, 2001) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/afghanistan-us-leaflet-taliban-we-know-where-you-are-2001/)

## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques

- [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer)
- [Clay cylinder with the Ehulhul inscription of Nabonidus, king of Babylon, describing work on three temples](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cylinder-nabonidus-ehulhul-inscription-555bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer)
- [Seated limestone statue of Hatshepsut as king, with feminine royal titles on the throne, reassembled from fragments broken up at Deir el-Bahri](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hatshepsut-seated-statue-limestone-met-1458bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer, Testimonial)
- [Glazed-brick panel with a striding lion, from Babylon (reign of Nebuchadnezzar II)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ishtar-gate-panel-striding-lion-nebuchadnezzar-ii-604bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer)
- [Limestone relief block of Ramesses II wearing the White Crown, a jubilee relief from his temple at Herakleopolis](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jubilee-relief-ramesses-ii-herakleopolis-met-05-4-256/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer)
- [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account.
- [Gypsum alabaster slab inscribed in cuneiform, from Nimrud (Kalhu), reign of Ashurnasirpal II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nimrud-slab-ashurnasirpal-ii-inscription-883bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [Egyptian alabaster jar inscribed with the name of Xerxes the Great in four languages (Old Persian, Elamite, Babylonian, Egyptian), 486 to 466 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/xerxes-jar-four-languages-486bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Transfer)