Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan To A More Dangerous World

719 Pages·2015·12.38 MB·English

by  Christina Lamb

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First published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2015
Copyright © Christina Lamb 2015
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Dedication
In memory of all those who lost their lives to terrorism – or fighting it – from
New York to London to Kandahar to Peshawar
Epigraph
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
General Douglas MacArthur
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Maps
The Leaving
PART 1: GETTING IN
1 Rule Number One
2 Sixty Words
3 Making – and Almost Killing – a President
4 Ground Zero
5 Losing bin Laden – the Not So Great Escape
6 A Tale of Two Generals
7 Taliban Central
8 Merchants of Ruin – the Return of the Warlords
9 Theatre of War
10 A Tale of Two Wars
11 Voting With Mullah Omar
PART II: WAR
12 Ambush
13 Bringing Dolphins to Helmand
14 Tethered Goats
15 The President in His Bloody Palace
16 Whose Side Are You On?
17 The Snake Bites Back
18 The Weathermen of Kandahar
19 We’ll Always Have Kabul
20 Death of a Poet
21 Meeting Colonel Imam
PART III: THE GOOD WAR
22 The View From Washington
23 All About the Politics
24 The Butcher of Mumbai
25 Losing the Moral High Ground in Margaritaville
26 Chairman Mullen and the Cadillac of the Skies
PART IV: GETTING OUT
27 Killing bin Laden
Postscript: War Never Leaves You
Picture Section
Acknowledgements
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Also by Christina Lamb
About the Author
About the Publisher