Reddit reviews Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History
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Story of a Congress Man and his wild role
If you're into primary sources, reading NSC-68 is a pretty great experience (although almost exclusively relevant to the American perspective).
For something less "boring," you could look into Charlie Wilson's War - they made a movie with Tom Hanks, also, but I found it predictably less informative. I like reading about the Soviet War in Afghanistan, and my favorite book on the topic is Girardet's "Afghanistan: The Soviet War".
Would you rather have lost the Cold War, or supported the "freedom fighters" in Afghanistan? You can thank Charlie Wilson for this one...
blah blah blah. There is no conspiracy. The CIA simply fucked up and stopped paying to all the hydra heads that were branching off of their creations in Afghanistan.
They systematically kept trying to go after Bin Laden right until the end of the Clinton adminstration.
It was Bush who dropped the ball, and imo through sheer negligence.
read a book
http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Wars-Afghanistan-Invasion-September/dp/0143034669/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221425263&sr=8-1
or two
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802141242/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk