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The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
Viking
March 2012
On Sale: March 15, 2012
256 pages
ISBN: 0670023469
EAN: 9780670023462
Kindle: B005OW8GQO
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
The leading journalist on Pakistan lays out America's
options with Pakistan and Afghanistan in the post-Bin Laden
years. What are the possibilities-and
hazards-facing America as it withdraws from Afghanistan and
as it reviews its long engagement in Pakistan? Where is the
Taliban now in both these countries? What does the
immediate future hold and what are America's choices as
President Obama considers our complicated history and faces
reelection? These are some of the crucial questions
that Ahmed Rashid- Pakistan's preeminent journalist-takes
on in this follow-up to his acclaimed Descent into
Chaos. Rashid correctly predicted that the Iraq war
would have to be refocused into Afghanistan and that
Pakistan would emerge as the leading player through which
American interests and actions would have to be directed.
Now, as Washington and the rest of the West wrestle with
negotiating with unreliable and unstable "allies" in
Pakistan, there is no better guide to the dark future than
Ahmed Rashid. He focuses on the long-term problems-the
changing casts of characters, the future of international
terrorism, and the actual policies and strategies both
within Pakistan and Afghanistan and among the Western
allies-as the world tries to bring some stability to a
fractured region saddled with a legacy of violence and
corruption. The decisions made by America and the West will
affect the security and safety of the world. And as he has
done so well in the past, Rashid offers sensible solutions
and provides a way forward for all three countries.
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