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University of Washington Press
October 2001
On Sale: October 1, 2001
264 pages
ISBN: 0295980508
EAN: 9780295980508
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Non-Fiction
Going beyond the stereotypes of Kalashnikov-wielding Afghan
mujahideen and black-turbaned Taliban fundamentalists, Larry
Goodson explains in this concise analysis of the Afghan war
what has really been happening in Afghanistan in the last
twenty years. Beginning with the reasons behind
Afghanistan's inability to forge a strong state its myriad
cleavages along ethnic, religious, social, and geographical
fault lines Goodson then examines the devastating course of
the war itself. He charts its utter destruction of the
country, from the deaths of more than 2 million Afghans and
the dispersal of some six million others as refugees to the
complete collapse of its economy, which today has been
replaced by monoagriculture in opium poppies and heroin
production. The Taliban, some of whose leaders Goodson
interviewed as recently as 1997, have controled roughly 80
percent of the country but themselves have shown increasing
discord along ethnic and political lines.
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