TY - BOOK AU - Fitzgerald,Paul AU - Gould,Elizabeth TI - Crossing zero : : the AfPak war at the turning point of American empire / T2 - (Open media series) SN - 9780872865136 AV - DS371.4. F58 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - San Francisco, CA : PB - City Lights Books, KW - Imperialism KW - History KW - Afghan War, 2001- KW - Terrorism KW - Afghanistan KW - Afghanistan KW - Strategic aspects KW - Pakistan KW - Asia, Central KW - Military relations KW - United States KW - United States KW - Pakistan N1 - Contents: Prologue : Fort Del Oro—The great game for Central Asia, then and now—Crossing zero—Creating the Taliban—AfPak : what is it?—Obama’s Vietnam?—Metrics—NATO—U.S./Pakistan : a history—Warlords, the Taliban, and Al Qaeda—Death from above—Decrypting the Afghan/American agenda—Closing zero—Issues, answers, and recommendations—Epilogue. ER -