Perder la guerra : Historia del fracaso norteamericano en Afganistán

Jon Lee Anderson wrote his first dispatches about the Taliban in the 1980s. At that time, the mujahideen were fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan with covert CIA support and were viewed sympathetically by the American public. Everything changed after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001: Al-Qaeda had enjoyed the protection of the Afghan Taliban, and Osama bin Laden was believed to be hiding in the country's mountains. The U.S. response was to invade Afghanistan with the support of an international coalition and attempt to sustain a pro-Western government. What had changed in less than two decades to transform those anti-communist warriors into bloodthirsty anti-Westerners who mistreated women? And how was it possible that, in another two decades, the attempt to democratize the country collapsed, leaving the Western coalition to abandon Afghanistan to the Taliban?