Funding the Enemy: How US Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban

by Douglas A. Wissing

Book Overview

With the vague intention of winning hearts and minds in Afghanistan, the US government has mismanaged billions of development and logistics dollars, bolstered the drug trade, and dumped untold millions into Taliban hands. That is the sobering message of this scathing critique of our war effort in Afghanistan. According to this book, America has already lost the war. While conducting extensive research and fieldwork in Afghanistan's war zones, a drumbeat...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616146036
• ISBN13: 9781616146030
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"