000			02511aam a2200205 4500
999			_c398555 _d398555
008			191224b 2013 ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9781610394734
082			_a327.7305491 _bH2M2
100			_aHaqqani, Husain _9389233
245			_aMagnificent delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an epic history of misunderstanding
260			_bPublic Affairs _c2013 _aNew York
300			_a415 p. _bIncludes index
504			_aTable of contents False start Aid, arms, and bases A split and a tilt Picking up the pieces A most superb and patriotic liar Denial and double game Parallel universes.
520			_aThe relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension and always has been. Pakistan—to American eyes—has gone from being a quirky irrelevance, to a stabilizing friend, to an essential military ally, to a seedbed of terror. America—to Pakistani eyes—has been a guarantee of security, a coldly distant scold, an enthusiastic military enabler, and is now a threat to national security and a source of humiliation. The countries are not merely at odds. Each believes it can play the other—with sometimes absurd, sometimes tragic, results. The conventional narrative about the war in Afghanistan, for instance, has revolved around the Soviet invasion in 1979. But President Jimmy Carter signed the first authorization to help the Pakistani-backed mujahedeen covertly on July 3—almost six months before the Soviets invaded. Americans were told, and like to believe, that what followed was Charlie Wilson's war of Afghani liberation, with which they remain embroiled to this day. It was not. It was General Zia-ul-Haq's vicious regional power play. Husain Haqqani has a unique insight into Pakistan, his homeland, and America, where he was ambassador and is now a professor at Boston University. His life has mapped the relationship of the two countries and he has found himself often close to the heart of it, sometimes in very confrontational circumstances, and this has allowed him to write the story of a misbegotten diplomatic love affair, here memorably laid bare. https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/?s=Magnificent+delusions%3APakistan%2C+the+United+States%2C+and+an+epic+history+of+misunderstanding
650			_aDiplomatic relations
650			_aPakistan - United States - Misunderstanding
650			_aPakistan - Foreign relations - United States
650			_aLahore (Pakistan) - History
942			_2ddc _cBK