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Descent into Chaos by Ahmed Rashid - June 2008: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
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The ongoing turmoil in Afghanistan and Central Asia receives a searching retrospective as Rashid surveys the region to reveal a thicket of ominous threats and lost opportunities--in Pakistan, a rickety dictatorship colludes with militants, and Afghanistan's weak government is besieged by warlords, an exploding drug economy and a powerful Taliban insurgency. The author blames the unwillingness of American policymakers to shoulder the burden of nation building. According to Rashid, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan and subsequently refused to commit the forces and money needed to rebuild it; instead the U.S. government made corrupt alliances with warlords to impose a superficial calm, while continuing to ignore the Pakistani government's support of the Taliban and the other Islamic extremists who have virtually taken over Pakistan's western provinces. An insightful indictment of the U.S. government's hand in the region's degeneration.
The ongoing turmoil in Afghanistan and Central Asia receives a searching retrospective as Rashid surveys the region to reveal a thicket of ominous threats and lost opportunities--in Pakistan, a rickety dictatorship colludes with militants, and Afghanistan's weak government is besieged by warlords, an exploding drug economy and a powerful Taliban insurgency. The author blames the unwillingness of American policymakers to shoulder the burden of nation building. According to Rashid, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan and subsequently refused to commit the forces and money needed to rebuild it; instead the U.S. government made corrupt alliances with warlords to impose a superficial calm, while continuing to ignore the Pakistani government's support of the Taliban and the other Islamic extremists who have virtually taken over Pakistan's western provinces. An insightful indictment of the U.S. government's hand in the region's degeneration.
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- Date Published June 2008
- Keywords government, history, nation-building, politics, Taliban, Central Asia, South Asia, Pakistan, Afghanistan
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