Crossing Zero: The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire (City Lights Open Media)
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Introduction and Prologue from Crossing Zero. Paul Fitzgerald , Elizabeth Gould. Praise for Crossing Zero: Iran, Turkey and America's Future "I loved it. An International Network of Governments and Secret-Service Agencies Working Together with Drugs Dealers and Terrorists for Mutual Benefit and Profit "Gould and Fitzgerald have identified the triumphalist strain that has marked American foreign policy over the past years and documented President Obama's failure to introduce change to American national security policy.
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Authors Paul Fitzgerald , Elizabeth Gould. Collection City Lights Open Media. Publisher City Lights Publishers. Title First Published 15 February Nb of pages p. I knew when Oliver Stone gave this book accolades it would be interesting and a tirade against our government.
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They use the Vietnam analogy and it is appropriate. They criticize every approach. We need to get out of Afghanistan but this book doesn't offer any real solutions. Jun 01, Chris rated it it was amazing Shelves: This book outlines the history, culture, politics, religion, and military in both Afghanistan and Pakistan and analyzes in depth United States intervention in both of these countries.
Anyone who wants to better understand the role that the United States in playing in these countries needs to read this book, which is the culmination of 15 years of research by two jouralists who have lived in Afghanistan for many years.
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It also casts grave doubts on the rationale for continuing American interventionism and makes a strong case for retrenchment.
Drawing from a wide range of sources, and written in crisp, clear prose, the book will be useful to students, researchers, policy makers, and anyone interested in knowing the truth. They have marshaled an impressive array of sources, both journalistic and academic, to demonstrate that their ideas have long been available, if only policymakers had chosen to heed them Readers with a serious interest in U.
About Elizabeth Gould Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, a husband and wife team, began working together in co-producing a documentary for Paul's television show, Watchworks. They were told that the Russians wanted to go home and negotiate their way out. Peace in Afghanistan was more than a possibility.
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As the first American journalists to get deeply inside the story they not only got a view of an unseen Afghan life, but a revelatory look at how the US defined itself against the rest of the world under the veil of superpower confrontation. Once the Soviets had crossed the border into Afghanistan, the fate of both nations was sealed. But as Paul and Liz pursued the reasons behind the wall of propaganda that shielded the truth, they found themselves drawn into a story that was growing into mythic dimensions.
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Big things were brewing in Afghanistan. Old empires were being undone and new ones, hatched.
America had launched a Medieval Crusade against the modern world and the ten year war against the Soviet Union was only the first chapter. It was at the time of the first World Trade Center bombing in when Paul and Liz were working on the film version of their experience under contract to Oliver Stone, that they began to piece together the mythic implications of the story. During the research for the screenplay many of the documents preceding the Afghan crisis were declassified.
Over the next decade they trailed a labyrinth of clues only to find a profound likeness in Washington's official policy towards Afghanistan - in the ancient Zoroastrian war of the light against the dark - whose origins began in the region now known as Afghanistan.
Crossing Zero : The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire
It was a likeness that grows more visible as America's involvement deepens. Afghanistan's civil war followed America's Cold War while Washington walked away. A new strain of religious holy warrior called the Taliban arose but no one in America was listening. As the horrors of the Taliban regime began to grab headlines in Paul and Liz began collaborating with Afghan human rights expert Sima Wali. Along with Wali, they contributed to the Women for Afghan Women: Shattering Myths and Claiming the Future book project.
In they filmed Wali's first return to Kabul since her exile in