Pakistan and America have been gripped together in a deadly
embrace for decades. For half a century American presidents from
both parties pursued narrow short-term interests in Pakistan. This
myopia actually backfired in the long term, helping to destabilize
the political landscape and radicalizing the population, setting
the stage for the global jihad we face today.
Bruce Riedel, one of America's foremost authorities on U.S.
security and South Asia, sketches the history of U.S.-Pakistani
relations from partitioning of the subcontinent in 1947 up through
the present day. It is muddled story, meandering through periods of
friendship and enmity. Riedel deftly interprets the tortuous path
of relations between two very different nations that remain, in
many ways, stuck with each other.
The Preface to the paperback provides an inside account of the
discovery of Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad hideout that led to the
al Qaeda leader's demise. Accusations of Pakistani complicity in
harboring bin Laden once again dramatized the ambivalence and
distrust existing between two nations that purport to be allies.
Riedel discusses what it all means for the war on terror and the
future of U.S.- Pakistani relations.
Praise for the hardcover edition of "Deadly Embrace " "Mr.
Riedel, who has advised no fewer than four American presidents,
knows power from the inside --something he is keen to share with
the reader.... His book provides a useful account of the
dysfunctional relationship between Pakistan and America." -- "The
Economist " "Bruce Riedel has produced an excellent volume that is
both analytically sharp and cogently written. It will engage both
specialists and the interested public. Essential reading." --Peter
Bergen, author of "Holy War, Inc. "and "The Osama bin Laden I Know
" "Riedel lucidly provides an overview of the last thirty years of
Pakistan's internal politics, its relationship with the United
States, as well as the various insurgent and terrorist groups with
which it has had close association. The book is informed by his own
experiences over most of this period as an intelligence analyst for
the U.S. government. As usual with Bruce, it is brilliant, and
quite sobering --yet hardly without hope." --Foreign Policy
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