{"product_id":"the-withdrawal-iraq-libya-afghanistan-and-the-fragility-of-u-s-power","title":"The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American collapse in Afghanistan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Through the structure of a deeply engaging conversation between two of our most important contemporary public intellectuals, we are urged to defy the inattention of the media to the disastrous damage inflicted in Afghanistan on life, land, and resources in the aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal and the connections to the equally avoidable and unnecessary wars on Iraq and Libya.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--from the foreword by Angela Y. Davis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot since the last American troops left Vietnam have we faced such a sudden vacuum in our foreign policy--not only of authority, but also of explanations of what happened, and what the future holds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew analysts are better poised to address this moment than Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad, intellectuals and critics whose work spans generations and continents. Called \"the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet\" by the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, Noam Chomsky is the guiding light of dissidents around the world. In \u003cem\u003eThe Withdrawal\u003c\/em\u003e, Chomsky joins with noted scholar Vijay Prashad--who \"helps to uncover the shining worlds hidden under official history and dominant media\" (Eduardo Galeano)--to get at the roots of this unprecedented time of peril and change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChomsky and Prashad interrogate key inflection points in America's downward spiral: from the disastrous Iraq War to the failed Libyan intervention to the descent into chaos in Afghanistan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the final moments of American power in Afghanistan fade from view, this crucial book argues that we must not take our eyes off the wreckage--and that we need, above all, an unsentimental view of the new world we must build together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNoam Chomsky\u003c\/b\u003e is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. A world-renowned linguist and political activist, he is the author of numerous books, including \u003cem\u003eOn Language\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Power\u003c\/em\u003e (edited by Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel), \u003cem\u003eAmerican Power and the New Mandarins\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFor Reasons of State\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eProblems of Knowledge and Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eObjectivity and Liberal Scholarship\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTowards a New Cold War\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Essential Chomsky\u003c\/em\u003e (edited by Anthony Arnove), \u003cem\u003eOn Anarchism\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Chomsky-Foucault Debate\u003c\/em\u003e (with Michel Foucault), and \u003cem\u003eThe Withdrawal\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOn Cuba\u003c\/em\u003e (both with Vijay Prashad), all published by The New Press. He lives in São Paulo, Brazil. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eVijay Prashad \u003c\/b\u003eis director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, editor of LeftWord Books, and the chief correspondent for Globetrotter (Independent Media Institute). He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eUncle Swami: South Asians in America Today\u003c\/em\u003e, and co-author (with Noam Chomsky) of \u003cem\u003eThe Withdrawal\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOn Cuba\u003c\/em\u003e (all published by The New Press), as well as \u003cem\u003eWashington Bullets\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eThe Darker Nations\u003c\/em\u003e was chosen as a Best Nonfiction Book of the Year by the Asian American Writers' Workshop and won the Muzaffar Ahmad Book Prize. 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