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The Good War: Why We Couldn’t Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan is a 2014 book by British writer Jack Fairweather, a former Washington Post war correspondent, about the recent War in Afghanistan.
This book is a comprehensive history of the war, arguing that one of the primary reasons for the Taliban's success was their deep connection to the religious and social identity of Afghanistan, [7] and that the inability of the American-supported Afghan government to attract popular support and retain control of the country [8] was due to Afghans’ viewing the American military as a foreign ...
The Forever War (Filkins book) Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage; G. The Good War: Why We Couldn't Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan; H.
From April to June 2018, the People's Peace Movement held a peace march, called the "Helmand peace convoy", across Afghanistan, in reaction to a car bombing on 23 March 2018 in Lashkar Gah that had killed 14 people. [28] [29] [27] The marchers called for a ceasefire at least two days long. They marched through Taliban-controlled territory.
Åsne Seierstad entered Afghanistan two weeks after the September 11 attacks in the US and followed the Northern Alliance into Kabul. Wearing a burka as a disguise, she spent three months living with a bookseller and his family in Kabul, which provided her with a unique opportunity to describe life as ordinary Afghan citizens experienced it.
"The future of Afghanistan needs to be determined by Afghans," William Ruger, Trump's nominee to be US ambassador there, told Insider.
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The book focused much of its criticism on President George W. Bush, charging that he failed to take sufficient action to protect the country in the elevated-threat period before the September 11 attacks and for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which Clarke feels greatly hampered the War on Terrorism.