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Cover -- Praise for Blood Washing Blood -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Provinces and Cities of Afghanistan -- Pashtun Tribes -- Barakzai Dynasty 1826-1978 -- 1: 1919 -- 2 Early Reforms -- 3 Rebellion on All Sides -- 4 The Water Carrier's Boy -- 5 The Shadow of God -- 6 The Boy King -- 7 Pashtunistan -- 8 The Strong Hand of the Prime Minister -- 9 The Last Amir -- 10 An Amir by Any Other Name -- 11 Bloody April -- 12 A Godless and Alien Regime -- 13 With Neither the Soviets nor God -- 14 The Students -- 15 The Commander of the Faithful -- 16 Guilt by Association -- 17 Infinite Justice -- 18 Opportunity Lost -- 19 The Neo-Taliban -- 20 Left to Stand Alone -- 21 Fraying at The Edges -- 22 Faint Hope for the Future -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Source Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover.
The current conflict in Afghanistan is not about Western intervention, but part of a hundred-year war over the issues of modernity, secularism, and the centralization of power.