What are the possibilities and hazards facing America as it withdraws from Afghanistan and as it reviews its long engagement in Pakistan? Where is the Taliban now in both these countries? What does the immediate future hold and what are America's choices as President Obama considers the complicated history and faces reelection? These are some of the crucial questions that Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan's preeminent journalist, takes on in this follow-up to his acclaimed Descent into Chaos.

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