The War Expands: Obama, Afghanistan and Pakistan, by David Barsamian
What's really going on in Afghanistan and Pakistan? Why is U.S.
involvement rapidly escalating? Is our exit strategy from Iraq merely
send those troops to Afghanistan? Noted author and media scholar David
Barsamian reveals how, though the Obama administration no longer usesthe phrase "war on terror," it is waging one on the Afghanistan-
Pakistan border, doubling troop strength and greatly expanding attacks
on Pakistan that increasingly destabilize that impoverished country.
Throw in nukes, feudalism, an emboldened Taliban, a collapsing
infrastructure and you have a volatile cocktail that could explode in
Washington's face and undermine the Obama presidency. Is this the
change we can believe in?
David Barsamian is the founder and director of Alternative radio, the
award-winning weekly series based in Boulder. It is internationally
syndicated to public radio stations. It is aired on KGNU 88.5FM,
Wed 6-7PM.
Barsamian has traveled extensively in West and South Asia. He's been to
Pakistan three times in the last year. Author of many books, his latest
are What We Say Goes with Noam Chomsky and Targeting Iran.