The case for withdrawal from Afghanistan / edited by Nick Turse.

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Other Authors: Turse, Nick
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Verso, [2010], ©2010.
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Physical Description:xviii, 185 pages : map ; 21 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Introduction / Nick Turse -- Pt. I. THE WARS FOR AFGHANISTAN. Armageddon at the top of the world...not! : A century of frenzy over the North-West frontier / Juan Cole -- The familiar road to failure / Rodric Braithwaite -- Afghanistan, Gorky, and an open letter to Leonid Brezhnev, 1980 / Andrei Sakharov -- We were waging war against a people / Oleg Vasilevich Kustov -- Abolish the CIA! / Chalmers Johnson -- Mirage of the good war / Tariq Ali -- Chaos central / Chris Sands -- Pt. II. INCOMPETENCE, CORRUPTION, AND THE WAR ON WOMEN. Meet the Afghan Army : Is it a figment of Washington's imagination? / Ann Jones -- Paying off the warlords : Anatomy of a culture of corruption / Pratap Chatterjee -- How the US funds the Taliban / Aram Roston -- Remember the women? / Ann Jones -- The US government has never supported democratic organizations / Elsa Rassbach intterviews Zoya of the Foreign Committee of RAWA -- Pt. III. FACTS ON THE GROUND. Going for broke : Six ways the Af-Pak war is expanding / Tom Engelhardt -- The shadow war : Making sense of the new CIA battlefield / Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse -- The 700 military bases of Afghanistan : Black sites in the empire of bases / Nick Turse -- How hearts and minds were lost : A personal experience working with the international military / Zabih Farhad (pseudonym) -- Pt. IV. THE CASE FOR WITHDRAWAL. All foreign troops must withdraw / Dominique Bari interviews Latif Pedram -- No nation can liberate another / Malalai Joya -- What Obama could learn from Gorbachev / Robert Crews -- Obama's policies make the situation worse / Graham Fuller -- The war we can't win : The limits of American power / Andrew J. Bacevich -- How to get out / Robert Dreyfuss. 
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