Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan To A More Dangerous WorldFrom the award-winning co-author of I Am Malala, this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did the West’s war in Afghanistan and across the Middle East go so wrong? Farewell Kabul tells how the West turned success into defeat in the longest war fought by the United States in its history and by Britain since the Hundred Years War. It is the story of well-intentioned men and women going into a place they did not understand at all. And how, what had once been the right thing to do had become a conflict that everyone wanted to exit. It has been a fiasco which has left Afghanistan still one of the poorest and most dangerous nations on earth. The leading journalist on the region with unparalleled access to all key decision makers, Christina Lamb is the best-selling author of ‘The Africa House’ and I Am Malala, co-authored with Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai. This revelatory and personal account is her final analysis of the realities of Afghanistan, told unlike anyone before. |
Contents
Making and Almost Killing a President | |
Ground Zero | |
Losing bin Laden the Not So Great Escape | |
A Tale of Two Generals | |
The Snake Bites Back | |
The Weathermen of Kandahar | |
Well Always Have Kabul | |
Death of a Poet | |
Meeting Colonel Imam | |
THE GOOD | |
All About the Politics | |
Losing the Moral High Ground in Margaritaville | |
Taliban Central | |
Merchants of Ruin the Return of the Warlords | |
Theatre of | |
A Tale of Two Wars | |
Voting With Mullah Omar | |
Ambush | |
Bringing Dolphins to Helmand | |
Whose Side Are You | |
Chairman Mullen and the Cadillac of the Skies | |
GETTING | |
War Never Leaves | |
Picture Section | |
Acknowledgements | |
Index | |
Tethered Goats 15 The President in His Bloody Palace | |
Also by Christina Lamb | |