NY Book Review on Ahmed Rashid's "Descent into Chaos.."

“The New York Review of Books” has a very informative review of Ahmed Rashid’s book “Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia”. The review (available at http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22274) is written by William Dalrymple.

It is strange that people still choose to create monsters (the jihadists in this case) in spite of various instances of the Frankenstein story occurring in real life.