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Books : Descent into Chaos: How the War Against Islamic Extremism is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia
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Descent into Chaos: How the War Against Islamic Extremism is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia by: Ahmed Rashid List Price: £25.00 Vegetarian Books Price: £17.50 You Save: £7.50 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780713998436 ISBN: 0713998431 Label: Allen Lane Manufacturer: Allen Lane Number Of Pages: 544 Publication Date: July 03, 2008 Publisher: Allen Lane Studio: Allen Lane Sales Rank: 4862 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - OutstandingAn exceptional chronicle of the calamities that have unfolded before our very eyes over the past seven years. This book is as remarkable for the breadth and extent of contacts and sources enjoyed by the author as it is cutting in its incisions into the machinations of chronic mismanagement. Quite astounding in some of its revelations, Rashid somehow manages to keep a clear coherence in attempting to fathom the barely fathomable decisions that have been made, and not made, by a multitude of diverse stakeholders in this whole sorry process. Anyone interested in current global theats, the intricacies and interconnectivity of regional and global geopolitics and the personalities and agendas that have underpinned the foreign policies of the post ... Read More: Rating: - A key essay, which provides for a new interpretation of the conflicts under wayThe Descent into Chaos by Ahmed Rashid is going to alter the common view about what happened in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia after 9/11. It should be considered as a seminal work, for sure, because it challenges the current official version about the guidelines followed in the international reconstruction effort under way in Afghanistan. The most troubling assumption of the essay relates to the support accorded by the US to the warlords, which alienated, in Rashid's view, the Afghan people and opened a window of opportunity for the Taliban to come back. In Rashid opinion, since the very beginnig of his endeavour Karzai lacked adequate support by the US, because the Pentagon disregarded nation building, and wanted to avoid a larger ... Read More: Rating: - An excellent overview of the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan.I've really enjoyed this wide ranging and very readable book. It is an excellent introduction to the complexities of Western involvement in Afghanistan, to the failures of policy in Pakistan and to the tactics employed by the CIA under the "war on terror" umbrella. This is an indispensable book for anyone interested in current day politics, because decisions and events which are played out in this region have a tremendous influence on Western governance. It deserves to be on the bookshelf of every NATO officer and NATO government MP. Rating:  - Insane warmongeringPakistani 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 ... Read More: Rating: - A deeply troubling bookAhmed Rashid has long been a leading expert on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Muslim states of Central Asia that were once part of the Soviet Union. In 2000, the year before 9/11, he published 'Taliban', a book which politicians rushed to read after the attack on the Twin Towers; and if Central Asia catches fire, they will doubtlessly rush to his following book, 'Jihad', first published in 2002, which is an equally authoritative account of the dangers lurking in that area. After a brilliant introduction of 21 pages, the first three chapters of the present book give the story of American involvement in Afghanistan before 9/11. The characteristic unreliability of American policy is brought out: help given to the Islamic forces and to ... Read More: |
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