Games without Rules: The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan Staley Brand: For Dummies

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Games without Rules: The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan Staley Brand: For DummiesAuthor: Ansary, Tamim Number Of Pages: 416 Release Date: 27 11 2012 Details: Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real; but it sits atop an older struggle, between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan: a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam. Now,