The case for withdrawal from Afghanistan / edited by Nick Turse.
Material type: TextPublication details: London ; New York : Verso, c2010. Description: xviii, 185 p. : map ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781844674510
- DS371.412. C38 2010
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Monograph | Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University | DS371.412.C38 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 3ACKU000350172 |
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Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Introduction / Nick Turse—Part I : the wars for Afghanistan—1. Armageddon at the top of the world ...not! : a century of frenzy over the North-West Frontier / Juan Cole—2.The familiar road to failure / Rodric Braithwaite—3. Afghanistan, Gorky, and an open letter to Leonid Brezhnev, 1980 / Andrei Sakharov—4. We were waging war against a people / Oleg Vasilevich Kustov—5. Abolish the CIA! / Chalmers Johnson—6. Mirage of the good war / Tariq Ali—7. Chaos central / Chris Sands—Part II : incompetence corruption, and the war on women—8. Meet the Afghan Army : is it a figment of Washington's imagination? / Ann Jones—9. Paying off the warlords : anatomy of a culture of corruption / Pratap Chatterjee—10. How the US funds the Taliban / Aram Roston—11. Remember the women? / Ann Jones—12. The US government has never supported democratic organizations / Elsa Rassbach interviews Zoya of the Foreign Committee of RAWA—Part III : facts on the ground—13. Going for broke : six ways the Af-Pak war is expanding / Tom Engelhardt—14. The shadow war : making sense of the new CIA battlefield / Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse—15. The 700 military bases of Afghanistan : black sites in the empire of bases / Nick Turse—16. How hearts and minds were lost : a personal experience working with the international military / Zabih Farhad (pseudonym)—Part IV : the case for withdrawal—17. All foreign troops must withdraw / Dominique Bari interviews Latif Pedram—18. No nation can liberate another / Malalai Joya—19. What Obama could learn from Gorbachev / Robert Crews—20. Obama's policies make the situation worse / Graham Fuller—21. The war we can't win: the limits of American power / Andrew J. Bacevich—22. How to get out / Robert Dreyfuss—A note on sources—Acknowledgments—About the authors.