Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Invisible History: Buddhist Afghanistan

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould (InvisibleHistory.com) Wisdom Quarterly

Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story tells the story of how Afghanistan brought the United States [like Russia and England beforehand] to this strange place in time after nearly six decades of American policy in Eurasia. VIDEO: The Story Explained with Pictures


The authors visit San Francisco, Los Angeles

"Afghanistan" is older than America with a complex, multi-ethnic culture, deep roots in mystical [pre-Islamic] Zoroastrian and Sufi traditions. It has played a pivotal role in the rise and fall of empires.

Invisible History provides sobering facts and details every American should have known about America’s secret war, but were never told. What was the real story behind the propaganda? More

Crossing Zero: The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire focuses on the AfPak strategy and the importance of the Durand/Zero Line. That line is the border separating Pakistan from Afghanistan, referred to by the military and intelligence community as the Zero Line.

The U.S. fought on the side of extremist-political Islam from Pakistan during the 1980s and against it from Afghanistan since September 11, 2001.

It is therefore appropriate to think of the Durand/Zero line as the place where America’s intentions face themselves -- the alpha and omega of nearly 60 years of American policy in Eurasia. The Durand Line is visible on a map. The Zero Line is not. More

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