Screen LibraryHow we missed the story：Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and the hijacking of Afghanistan
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United States Institute of Peace,
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| Publisher Address: | Washington, D.C. |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xvii, 321 p.: map ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781601270245 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1601270240 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | D871 |
| CLC: |
D871.223.72 D837.227.12 K372.6 D815.5 |
| Call Number: | D871.223.72/G984 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: The death of foreign policy? -- Comrades: the end! (1989) -- A half solution (1989-1992) -- With Massoud (1992-1994) -- "A very exciting development" (1994-1996) -- "An endless tragedy of epic proportions" (1997) -- "Silence cannot be the strategy" (1998) -- Hijacking a regime (1999) -- Coasting toward catastrophe (2000-2001) -- Human rights under Massoud and the Taliban -- Radicalization without response -- Epilogue: Clemenceau revisited. "Focusing principally on events in Afghanistan in the 1990s, award-winning journalist Roy Gutman advances a narrative that reveals the inner workings of U.S. foreign policymaking, the internal debates among key actors in and around Afghanistan during the 1990s, and the media's lapses in coverage of Afghanistan during that period that might have put that situation higher up on the U.S. foreign policy agenda. Drawing on field research and numerous interviews with key individuals both in the United States and abroad, Gutman highlights key strategic mistakes made by the West: first in allowing t |