The Forty-Year War in AfghanistanThe NATO occupation of Afghanistan is over, and a balance sheet can be drawn. These essays on war and peace in the region reveal Tariq Ali at his sharpest and most prescient. Rarely has there been such an enthusiastic display of international unity as that which greeted the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Compared to Iraq, Afghanistan became the good war. But a stalemate ensued, and the Taliban waited out the NATO contingents. Today, as the Kabul