You know, it's hard to keep up with everything that's in the news, but I guess I had just swallowed the whole line about Pakistan being our ally. The truth is much more complicated than that, as I learned in a recent article in the New Yorker. I also just finished War, by Sebastian Junger. The author of War, if I understand him correctly, said at the end of the book that we are basically at war with Pakistan by proxy, with the Taliban as their stand-in.
Forgot one more, although I don't know if it fits exactly into your criteria:
http://www.amazon.com/WAR-Sebastian-Junger/dp/044655622X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318315932&sr=8-1
You know, it's hard to keep up with everything that's in the news, but I guess I had just swallowed the whole line about Pakistan being our ally. The truth is much more complicated than that, as I learned in a recent article in the New Yorker. I also just finished War, by Sebastian Junger. The author of War, if I understand him correctly, said at the end of the book that we are basically at war with Pakistan by proxy, with the Taliban as their stand-in.