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About Steve Coll. Steve Coll is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars and the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and from to was president of the New America Foundation, a public policy institute in Washington, D.C. He More about Steve Coll. [Steve Coll] Ghost Wars The Secret History of the. Such was the dialogue for six years between the president and his intelligence chief in a nuclear-armed nation running secret wars on four continents.” ― Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, /5.
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To browse Academia. Skip to main content. Log In Sign Up. Maqsood Shaheen. From the beginning, Coll shows how the CIA's on-again, off-again engagement with Afghanistan after the end of the Soviet war left officials at Langley with inadequate resources and intelligence to appreciate the emerging power of the Taliban. He also demonstrates how Afghanistan became a deadly playing field for international politics where Soviet, Pakistani, and U. At the same time, the book, though opinionated, is not solely a critique of the agency.
Coll, managing editor for the Washington Post, covered Afghanistan from to He demonstrates unprecedented access to records of White House meetings and to formerly classified material, and his command of Saudi, Pakistani, and Afghani politics is impressive.
He also provides a seeming insider's perspective on personalities like George Tenet, William Casey, and anti-terrorism czar, Richard Clarke "who seemed to wield enormous power precisely because hardly anyone knew who he was or what exactly he did for a living".
Coll manages to weave his research into a narrative that sometimes has the feel of a Tom Clancy novel yet never crosses into excess. While comprehensive, Coll's book may be hard going for those looking for a ghost wars steve coll pdf download account of the events leading to the attacks.
The CIA's engagement with bin Laden as a target ghost wars steve coll pdf download capture begins a full two-thirds of the way into Ghost Wars, ghost wars steve coll pdf download, only after a lengthy march through developments during the Carter, ghost wars steve coll pdf download, Reagan, and early Clinton Presidencies. But this is not a critique of Coll's efforts; just a warning that some stamina is required to keep up.
Ghost Wars is a complex study of intelligence operations and an invaluable resource for those seeking a nuanced understanding of how a small band of extremists rose to inflict incalculable damage on American soil. Three administrations all ignored the warnings of their own staffs. Steve Cole lays down alot of facts and he does not have a biased opinion. This book says alot about how America's role in recent-history shapes events in it's future to sometmes catostrophic proportions.
All American History buffs need to pick up a copy, it's hard to put down once you get into it. It most likely won't change your mind about what we should or shouldn't do, or who we should or shouldn't vote for.
But it will educate you as to what already happened. The same Afghanistan that was also the one of the CIA's greatest successes. They also ineffectually engaged the genocide being committed by the Serbs in Bosnia, and then later by the Serbs in Kosovo. As well as ineffectually engaging Iraq. It wasn't a secret declaration of war.
They had been trying to tell us the same for years. After the embassy bombings, one CIA employee tearfully told Tenet that the blood was on his hands. Guys at the CIA knew an attack on American soil was coming. By the late 90's even the reluctant CIA director had come around though he never endorsed any of his people's plans against Osama ghost wars steve coll pdf download the Taliban. Tenet did warn his buddy democratic congressman to avoid air travel and to not congregate in public at the end of because of ghost wars steve coll pdf download imminent Al Qaeda threat.
They were a big enough threat to warn a congressman that his life might be in danger around large amounts of US citizens that might be victims. But Al Qaeda was apparently not big enough a threat to warrant helping their opposition the Northern Alliance. Not big enough a threat to OK a strike against them, ghost wars steve coll pdf download. Unfortunately the Pakistanis were told about the upcoming cruise missile attack and they in turn told the Taliban, who informed their main benefactor OBL.
And as I read the book that thought loomed over my head. And truthfully, even though Clinton probably understood the CIA when they told him that an attack were coming, there was not much he could do with an uncooperative military, and a congress that did not trust him on either side of the isle.
The FBI and other agencies were able to thwart attacks of the new millennium. And Clinton understood when the various agencies told him that it was luck alone that had enabled them to stop that Millennium attacks, and that they would most likely not catch the next one. Killing bin Laden at that time would have unlikely stopped anything.
I think it was Richard Clark who told them; "act now like you are going to act after the attack, treat our uncooperative allies of Pakistan and the Gulf States, as if the attack had already happened".
He said that or something like it. From all accounts I read ghost wars steve coll pdf download Clarke was spot on, but other times he was a selfish toolbag. She did finally decide that the Taliban was our enemy, and that it was unlikely that any amount of diplomacy was going to change that.
Nor was any amount of diplomacy going to make Pakistan and the various Gulf States realize that the Taliban and Al Qaeda were our enemy with our current policies.
The US finally agreed to help our allies against our sworn enemies, about the same time the Al Qaeda finally figured out how to kill the wily, brilliant and elusive Massaud. The Arab jihadists held the Palestinian cause as an afterthought at best.
If anything it was a lack of a US policy in Afghanistan that caused the attack. We stood by and did nothing while the most extreme elements in the Middle East and Pakistan funded and equipped a faction in Afghanistan foreign to Afghans and Afghan history. We even did some standing by while Pakistan used our money to fund our enemies.
The main reason that Clinton did not want to help our ally fight our enemy is the pariah of American liberty, the drug war. To compete with the funding of oil Sheikhs, and the funding and assistance of the Pakistani military, Massaud was benefiting off of the number one cash crop in Afghanistan, opium. We are driving the vast profits of the drug trade away from the legal government, and to whoever will oppose us, ghost wars steve coll pdf download. We are probably not going to stop a single European drug user from getting his fix, and I don't know why we are trying.
It gives valuable background and insight into how that region of the world operates as well as how we the US have traditionally dealt with it. He comes off as very knowledgeable and seems to have a lot of 'inside' information. He doesn't get overly political, just tells it like it was, which is hard to find these days. At times, this approach causes the text to be a little dry but I prefer this to the alternative i.
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[Steve Coll] Ghost Wars The Secret History of the. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, , abbreviated as Ghost Wars, is a book written by Steve Coll, published in by Penguin Press, won the Pulitzer Prize for General blogger.com: Steve Coll. Such was the dialogue for six years between the president and his intelligence chief in a nuclear-armed nation running secret wars on four continents.” ― Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, /5.
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