Bleeding Afghanistan: How the U.S. Destroyed a Country

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Despite official claims of democracy and women's freedom, Afghanistan has yet to emerge from the ashes of decades-long war. Kolhatkar and Ingalls report on the injustice of US policies in Afghanistan historically and in the post 9-11 era. Drawing from declassified government documents and on-the-ground interviews with Afghan activists, journalists, lawyers, refugees and students, they examine the connections between US training and arming of Mujahideen commanders and the subversion of Afghan democracy today.

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A wake-up call to everyone who thought the war in Afghanistan was a success story.Eve Ensler

This is notThe Bookseller of KabulorThe Kite Runner. It is not for latte-drinking liberals who want to save exotic Afghan women or men. It's about what America is really doing today in Afghanistan after the Taliban was ousted, and what we did before.Pratap Chatterjee, author of Iraq, Inq.: A Profitable Occupation

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Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls are the co-directors of the Afghan Women's Mission, a US-based non-profit organisation that works with the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). Their writings have appeared in Z Magazine, Foreign Policy in Focus, on Alternet, Common Dreams and in Counter Punch. In February 2005, Kolhatkar and Ingalls travelled to Afghanistan to witness first-hand the results of US policy and to understand how ordinary Afghans felt about the war. Sonali Kolhatkar is the host and producer of Uprising, a popular, daily, drive-time program on KPFK, Pacific Radio in Los Angeles. James Ingalls is a Staff Scientist at the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology.