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Little America

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

出版	Findaway World LLC, 2012-06-01
ISBN	16158755579781615875559
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=984KrgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

When President Barack Obama ordered the surge of troops and aid to Afghanistan, Washington Post correspondent Rajiv Chandrasekaran followed. He found the effort sabotaged not only by Afghan and Pakistani malfeasance but by infighting and incompetence within the American government. He explains how the United States has never understood Afghanistan -- and probably never will. During the Cold War, American engineers undertook a massive development project across southern Afghanistan in an attempt to woo the country from Soviet influence. They built a comfortable residential community known as Little America. But in the late 1970s the Americans abandoned the region to warlords and poppy farmers. In one revelatory scene after another, Chandrasekaran follows American efforts to reclaim the very same territory from the Taliban. Little America is an unprecedented examination of a failing war -- and an eye-opening look at the complex relationship between America and Afghanistan.