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What are the possibilities and hazards facing America as it withdraws from Afghanistan and as it reviews its long engagement in Pakistan? Where is the Taliban now in both these countries? What does the immediate future hold and what are America s choices as President Obama considers our complicated history and faces reelection? These are some of the crucial questions that Ahmed Rashid Pakistan s preeminent journalist takes on in this follow-up to his acclaimed Descent into Chaos. Rashid correctly predicted that the Iraq war would have to be refocused into Afghanistan and that Pakistan would emerge as the leading player through which American interests and actions would have to be directed. Now, as Washington and the rest of the West wrestle with negotiating with unreliable and unstable allies in Pakistan, there is no better guide to the dark future than Ahmed Rashid. He focuses on the long-term problems the changing casts of characters, the future of international terrorism, and the actual policies and strategies both within Pakistan and Afghanistan and among the Western allies as the world tries to bring some stability to a fractured region saddled with a legacy of violence and corruption. The decisions made by America and the West will affect the security and safety of the world. And as he has done so well in the past, Rashid offers sensible solutions and provides a way forward for all three countries. Praise for the narrator on Descent Into Chaos "Arthur Morey's narration is succinct, measured, and sharp...[his] rapid delivery of complex sentences and ideas maintains a journalist's distance from the litany of incredible historical facts...[and his] voice allows the listener to absorb the staggering scope of information presented..."
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"Ahmed Rashid's latest work provides essential insights for anyone who hopes to understand what's going on in Central Asia and the alternative futures that stretch out before it."
--"Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"
""Pakistan on the Brink" is a page turner. Through Ahmed Rashid's eloquent, incisive, objective, and fact-based descriptions of events and blunders repeatedly committed by the Afghan, Pakistani, and American establishments, the reader gets a great understanding of the genesis of the quagmire for which President Obama has coined the phrase AfPak."--"Louisville Courier-Journal"
"Insightful . . . Readers will welcome this insider's lucid, expert account of a disaster in the making."--"Kirkus Reviews"
"A clear-headed, sobering look at a country whose ties with the U.S. are becoming ever more frayed."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
"[Rashid] literally wrote the book on the Taliban and now has added a superb work on the future of Pakistan."
The Washington Post
"Insightful . . . Readers will welcome this insider s lucid, expert account of a disaster in the making." Kirkus Reviews
"Pakistan on the Brink is a page turner. Through Ahmed Rashid's eloquent, incisive, objective, and fact-based descriptions of events and blunders repeatedly committed by the Afghan, Pakistani, and American establishments, the reader gets a great understanding of the genesis of the quagmire for which President Obama has coined the phrase AfPak." Louisville Courier-Journal
Praise for Descent into Chaos
"Powerful." Wolf Blitzer
About the Author:
--"Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"
""Pakistan on the Brink" is a page turner. Through Ahmed Rashid's eloquent, incisive, objective, and fact-based descriptions of events and blunders repeatedly committed by the Afghan, Pakistani, and American establishments, the reader gets a great understanding of the genesis of the quagmire for which President Obama has coined the phrase AfPak."--"Louisville Courier-Journal"
"Insightful . . . Readers will welcome this insider's lucid, expert account of a disaster in the making."--"Kirkus Reviews"
"A clear-headed, sobering look at a country whose ties with the U.S. are becoming ever more frayed."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
"[Rashid] literally wrote the book on the Taliban and now has added a superb work on the future of Pakistan."
The Washington Post
"Insightful . . . Readers will welcome this insider s lucid, expert account of a disaster in the making." Kirkus Reviews
"Pakistan on the Brink is a page turner. Through Ahmed Rashid's eloquent, incisive, objective, and fact-based descriptions of events and blunders repeatedly committed by the Afghan, Pakistani, and American establishments, the reader gets a great understanding of the genesis of the quagmire for which President Obama has coined the phrase AfPak." Louisville Courier-Journal
Praise for Descent into Chaos
"Powerful." Wolf Blitzer
"A clear-headed, sobering look at a country whose ties with the U.S. are becoming ever more frayed." Publishers Weekly
Rashid, a Pakistani journalist, is that most valuable of political analysts: both insider and outsider to the problems he studies. His book should be read by anyone pondering how America might stop widening Osama bin Laden s pool of bomb-clad volunteers. Chicago Tribune
Rashid s book should be required reading for both presidential candidates, and anyone who wants to understand the jihadi problem. The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Ahmed Rashid's latest work provides essential insights for anyone who hopes to understand what's going on in Central Asia and the alternative futures that stretch out before it."
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"A clear-headed, sobering look at a country whose ties with the U.S. are becoming ever more frayed." Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Excellent Nobody tells the story of Musharaff s duplicity better than Rashid. Time
Ahmed Rashid has over the decades turned out to be something of a prophet in the region [and] his fourth book [is] a caustic compendium of the mistakes by the Bush administration and, by extension, its regional allies, in tackling Islamic militancy. International Herald Tribune"
Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani journalist based in Lahore, is the author of Descent Into Chaos and the #1 New York Times bestseller Taliban. He is a regular contributor to the Financial Times and the New York Times, and appears regularly on NPR, CNN, and the BBC World Service.
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- PublisherBrilliance Audio
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1501280007
- ISBN 13 9781501280009
- BindingMP3 CD
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