I Is For Infidel

   From Holy War to Holy Terror

   "Well before we come across this anecdote in "I Is for Infidel," we have grown accustomed to Ms. Gannon's enterprising instincts and, not least, her eye for the telling detail...She conveys with particular skill the Afghans' sense of despair as the world abandoned them and their country slid into anarchy, only to be taken over by the Taliban and al Qaeda...
So compelling is Ms. Gannon's case that by the end of the book, when she asserts almost in passing that Osama bin Laden may well be under the protection of the Pakistani military, it is easy to believe her. It is all a cautionary tale about alliances of convenience. But will anyone listen? ‘Afghanistan's tragedy,' Ms. Gannon observes in her epilogue, ‘is that to the world's powers, it has never really mattered--or mattered for long.”--The Wall Street Journal

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