The chaos that followed the Soviet withdrawal returned-along with the Taliban and other insurgencies, rested and rejuvenated in Pakistan. Police and officials remained ineffective and corrupt and warlords and criminals reclaimed their turf. Unfortunately, it never achieved a stable government’s primary duty-providing security. During several relatively peaceful postwar years, Afghanistan made progress in establishing a constitutional government, improving education and rebuilding infrastructure.
leaders turned their attention to an invasion of Iraq. At this point, Jones slows to deliver a blow-by-blow account of how America squandered this victory. forces attacked the country and aided Taliban opponents, who triumphed in a few months. In 2001, enraged at its refusal to surrender Osama bin Laden, U.S. Some semblance of order returned in the ’90s when the Taliban conquered most of the country and established an oppressive Islamic regime. Delighted at humiliating our Cold War enemy, American forces withdrew, well-armed Afghan factions turned on each other and the nation descended into lawless chaos. The Rise of European Security Cooperation, 2007) begins by describing the failures of Alexander the Great, Victorian Britain and the Soviet Union, reminding readers that the United States missed its first opportunity in the area after the Soviet withdrawal in 1989. RAND political scientist Jones (Foreign Service/Georgetown Univ. A scholarly account of America’s unsuccessful effort to avoid the same fate as three other great powers who tried to tame Afghanistan.
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