books.google.com.au - Afghanistan's history is a sad one: Soviet invasion in 1979; Pakistan-backed internal conflict in the 1980s; the Taliban regime and then the US invasion after the catastrophe of September 11th. Why does Afghanistan remain so vulnerable to domestic instability, foreign intervention and ideological extremism?...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Modern_Afghanistan.html?id=MuF55mSIt4EC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareModern Afghanistan
