Hopeless but optimistic :: journeying through America's endless war in Afghanistan /
Award-winning journalist Douglas A. Wissing's poignant and eye-opening journey across insurgency-wracked Afghanistan casts an unyielding spotlight on greed, dysfunction, and predictable disaster while celebrating the everyday courage and wisdom of frontline soldiers, idealistic humanitarians, a...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Award-winning journalist Douglas A. Wissing's poignant and eye-opening journey across insurgency-wracked Afghanistan casts an unyielding spotlight on greed, dysfunction, and predictable disaster while celebrating the everyday courage and wisdom of frontline soldiers, idealistic humanitarians, and resilient Afghans. As Wissing hauls a hundred pounds of body armor and pack across the Afghan warzone in search of the ground truth, US officials frantically spin a spurious victory narrative, American soldiers try to keep their body parts together, and Afghans try to stay positive and strain to figure out their next move after the US eventually leaves. As one technocrat confided to Wissing, "I am hopeless--but optimistic." Wissing is everywhere in Afghanistan, sharing an impressionistic view from little white taxis coursing across one of the world's most mine-ridden places; a perilous view from outside the great walls surrounding America's largest base, sequestered Bagram Air Field; and compelling inside views from within embattled frontline combat outposts, lumbering armored gun trucks and flitting helicopters, brain trauma clinics, and Kabul's Oz-like American embassy. It's Afghan life on the streets; the culture and institutions that anneal them; the poetry that enriches them. It includes the perspectives of cynical military lifers and frightened short-timers; true believers and amoral grabbers; Americans and Afghans trying to make sense of two countries surreally contorted by war-birthed extractive commerce. Along with a deep inquiry into the 21st-century American way of war and an unforgettable glimpse of the enduring culture and legacy of Afghanistan, Hopeless but Optimistic includes the real stuff of life: the austere grandeur of Afghanistan and its remarkable people; warzone dining, defecation, and sex; as well as the remarkable shopping opportunities for men whose job is to kill |
| Beschreibung: | Includes index. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xv, 172 pages) : illustrations, map |
| ISBN: | 9780253023339 0253023335 |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Prologue -- 1 Landing -- 2 Problems -- 3 In/Out -- 4 Reify -- 5 Shoulders -- 6 Salerno -- 7 Retrograde -- 8 Better -- 9 Boom -- 10 WHAM -- 11 Luck -- 12 Shitholes -- 13 Road -- 14 Friends -- 15 Kandahar -- 16 Leatherneck -- 17 Sex -- 18 Drugs -- 19 Brains -- 20 Birds -- 21 Geronimo -- 22 Dream -- 23 Ship -- 24 Slaughter -- 25 System -- 26 Believers -- 27 Rumi -- 28 Enduring -- 29 Beauty -- 30 Sustaining -- 31 Challenges -- 32 Women -- 33 Dutch -- 34 Intermediates -- 35 Embassy -- 36 Loss -- 37 Optimism -- Epilogue -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Photo gallery. | |
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Wissing's poignant and eye-opening journey across insurgency-wracked Afghanistan casts an unyielding spotlight on greed, dysfunction, and predictable disaster while celebrating the everyday courage and wisdom of frontline soldiers, idealistic humanitarians, and resilient Afghans. As Wissing hauls a hundred pounds of body armor and pack across the Afghan warzone in search of the ground truth, US officials frantically spin a spurious victory narrative, American soldiers try to keep their body parts together, and Afghans try to stay positive and strain to figure out their next move after the US eventually leaves. As one technocrat confided to Wissing, "I am hopeless--but optimistic." 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| spelling | Wissing, Douglas A., author. Hopeless but optimistic : journeying through America's endless war in Afghanistan / Douglas A. Wissing. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016] ©2016 1 online resource (xv, 172 pages) : illustrations, map text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes index. Print version record. Award-winning journalist Douglas A. Wissing's poignant and eye-opening journey across insurgency-wracked Afghanistan casts an unyielding spotlight on greed, dysfunction, and predictable disaster while celebrating the everyday courage and wisdom of frontline soldiers, idealistic humanitarians, and resilient Afghans. As Wissing hauls a hundred pounds of body armor and pack across the Afghan warzone in search of the ground truth, US officials frantically spin a spurious victory narrative, American soldiers try to keep their body parts together, and Afghans try to stay positive and strain to figure out their next move after the US eventually leaves. As one technocrat confided to Wissing, "I am hopeless--but optimistic." Wissing is everywhere in Afghanistan, sharing an impressionistic view from little white taxis coursing across one of the world's most mine-ridden places; a perilous view from outside the great walls surrounding America's largest base, sequestered Bagram Air Field; and compelling inside views from within embattled frontline combat outposts, lumbering armored gun trucks and flitting helicopters, brain trauma clinics, and Kabul's Oz-like American embassy. It's Afghan life on the streets; the culture and institutions that anneal them; the poetry that enriches them. It includes the perspectives of cynical military lifers and frightened short-timers; true believers and amoral grabbers; Americans and Afghans trying to make sense of two countries surreally contorted by war-birthed extractive commerce. Along with a deep inquiry into the 21st-century American way of war and an unforgettable glimpse of the enduring culture and legacy of Afghanistan, Hopeless but Optimistic includes the real stuff of life: the austere grandeur of Afghanistan and its remarkable people; warzone dining, defecation, and sex; as well as the remarkable shopping opportunities for men whose job is to kill Cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Prologue -- 1 Landing -- 2 Problems -- 3 In/Out -- 4 Reify -- 5 Shoulders -- 6 Salerno -- 7 Retrograde -- 8 Better -- 9 Boom -- 10 WHAM -- 11 Luck -- 12 Shitholes -- 13 Road -- 14 Friends -- 15 Kandahar -- 16 Leatherneck -- 17 Sex -- 18 Drugs -- 19 Brains -- 20 Birds -- 21 Geronimo -- 22 Dream -- 23 Ship -- 24 Slaughter -- 25 System -- 26 Believers -- 27 Rumi -- 28 Enduring -- 29 Beauty -- 30 Sustaining -- 31 Challenges -- 32 Women -- 33 Dutch -- 34 Intermediates -- 35 Embassy -- 36 Loss -- 37 Optimism -- Epilogue -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Photo gallery. Wissing, Douglas A. Travel Afghanistan. Afghan War, 2001-2021. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004004460 United States Military policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140379 United States Foreign relations 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003003697 Guerre en Afghānistān, 2001-2021. États-Unis Relations extérieures 21e siècle. HISTORY Military Afghan War (2001- ) bisacsh Travel fast Afghanistan fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJjXpC7xxDYf4fj9jQq4v3 Diplomatic relations fast Military policy fast United States fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq Afghan War (2001-2021) fast (OCoLC)fst01695175 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vBbhpQvKPRyqxmTxMQy 2000-2099 fast Print version: Wissing, Douglas A. Hopeless but optimistic. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016] 9780253022851 0253022851 (OCoLC)933437858 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1290524 Volltext CBO01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1290524 Volltext |
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