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Ghosts of Afghanistan - The Haunted Battleground (Paperback)
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Ghosts of Afghanistan - The Haunted Battleground (Paperback)
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Loot Price R525
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This excellent book is a painfully honest account of successive
unwinnable wars. It is the text book Mr. Obama and others will need
if Afghanistan is ever to be left to find its own peace and
prosperity. --Jon Snow, Channel 4 News (UK) Jonathan Steele, an
award-winning journalist and commentator, has covered the country
since his first visit there as a reporter in 1981. He tracked the
Soviet occupation and the communist regime of Najibullah, which
held the Western-backed resistance at bay for three years after the
Soviets left. He covered the arrival of the Taliban to power in
Kabul in 1996, and their retreat from Kandahar under the weight of
U.S. bombing in 2001. Most recently Steele has reported from the
epicenter of the Taliban resurgence in Helmand. Ghosts of
Afghanistan turns a spotlight on the numerous myths about
Afghanistan that have bedeviled foreign policy-makers and driven
them to repeat earlier mistakes. Steele has conducted numerous
interviews with ordinary Afghans, two of the country's Communist
presidents, senior Soviet occupation officials, as well as Taliban
leaders, Western diplomats, NATO advisers, and United Nations
negotiators. Comparing the challenges facing the Obama
administration as it seeks to find an exit strategy with those the
Kremlin faced in the 1980s, Steele cautions that military victory
will elude the West just as it eluded the Kremlin. Showing how and
why Soviet efforts to negotiate an end to the war came to nothing,
he explains how negotiations today could put a stop to the
tragedies of civil war and foreign intervention that have afflicted
Afghanistan for three decades.
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