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Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
by: Ahmed Rashid

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 954.053
EAN: 9780670019700
ISBN: 0670019704
Label: Viking Adult
Manufacturer: Viking Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 544
Publication Date: June 03, 2008
Publisher: Viking Adult
Sales Rank: 3244
Studio: Viking Adult

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The #1 New York Times bestselling author provides a shocking analysis of the crisis in Pakistan and the renewed radicalism threatening Afghanistan and the West.

Ahmed Rashid is “Pakistan’s best and bravest reporter” (Christopher Hitchens). His unique knowledge of this vast and complex region allows him a panoramic vision and nuance that no Western writer can emulate.

His book Taliban first introduced American readers to the brutal regime that hijacked Afghanistan and harbored the terrorist group responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Now, Rashid examines the region and the corridors of power in Washington and Europe to see how the promised nation building in these countries has pro-gressed. His conclusions are devastating: An unstable and nuclear-armed Pakistan, a renewed al’ Qaeda profiting from a booming opium trade, and a Taliban resurgence and reconquest. While Iraq continues to attract most of American media and military might, Rashid argues that Pakistan and Afghanistan are where the conflict will finally be played out and that these failing states pose a graver threat to global security than the Middle East.

Benazir Bhutto’s assassination and the crisis in Pakistan are only the beginning. Rashid assesses what her death means for the region and the future. Rashid has unparalleled access to the figures in this global drama, and provides up-to-the-minute analysis better than anyone else. Descent Into Chaos will do for Central Asia what Thomas Rick’s Fiasco did for Iraq — offer a blistering critique of the Bush administration and an impassioned call to correct our failed strategy in the region.

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- Warmongering insanity

Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid is a friend and supporter of Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai. Rashid warns that Afghanistan is facing state collapse, Pakistan is in meltdown, and the five Central Asian states are dictatorships. He claims that the most important thing in the world is to rebuild these nations.

He shows that President Karzai's regime depends on warlords and drug barons, who are backed by the CIA. Britain's forces there are supposed to be helping to cut opium production, but their policy of paying farmers to destroy their opium crops has been `disastrous'. Opium production soared from 4,000 tons in 2005 to 8,200 in 2007. Half of this was grown in British-occupied Helmand, where the rest of Afghanistan's opium was sold.

The USA is allied to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, which are al-Qaeda's main sponsors. The USA has given more than $10 billion to Pakistan's ... Read More

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- Descent into Chaos
Written with great understanding of the political and economic struggle in the region. The enigma of Islam in the mind of ordinary person in the west. The misleading factor that puzzles the 'Think tanks' in Washington DC
on how to win Bush's war against terrorism. Most experts probably read it just not to show their ignorance and
have no desire to learn from their continuing mistakes in the region.

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- Great coverage of Historical events, but still a bit fragmented.
I enjoyed this book from one of my favorite authors. The book covers a lot of historical events. The author has high credibility, and I couldn't put the book down. Some of the material is fragmented, but it was still very interesting.

I'd highly recommend this one.

sb

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- Chilling and Riveting
Great read. Keeps you thinking, and realizing how much we the people do not know.

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