Review: Jack Fairweather's 'The Good War'
BY: Brock Dahl — January 3, 2015 5:00 am
What, for over thirteen years, have we been doing in Afghanistan? What have we been fighting for? What has gone so wrong?
Jack Fairweather, in his book, The Good War: Why We Couldn’t Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan,attempts to address these questions. A former foreign correspondent for both the Daily Telegraph and theWashington Post, Mr. Fairweather brings a storyteller’s touch to a modern history of Afghanistan that will be of interest to history buffs, conflict connoisseurs, and—as Mr. Fairweather hopes most—policy-makers reflecting on what has happened. Read More: What Went Wrong in Afghanistan