[Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], 2005.
viii, 22 pages ; 30 cm.
Summary: “Over 2 decades of incessant warfare destroyed Afghanistan as a functioning state, fracturing its institutions and devastating its economic. In the maelstrom of incessant interesting fighting in the 1990s, the Taliban clawed its way to power and installed a medieval regime, providing stability through brutality. The Taliban regime likely would have defeated the last of the resisting warlords and continued its rule had Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda not provoked the United States into war…”—(page v).