Fool`s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, Horton Scott

The real story of the disastrous U.S. war in Afghanistan must be written so that future generations may understand the folly of Washingtons warmongers. Scott Hortons Afghan war history is an important contribution to this vital effort. - Ron Paul, M.D., former U.S. congressman and author of Swords into Plowshares: A Life in Wartime and a Future of Peace and Prosperity

Scott Hortons, Fools Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, is a definitive, authoritative and exceptionally well-resourced accounting of Americas disastrous war in Afghanistan since 2001. Scotts book deserves not just to be read, but to be kept on your shelf, because as with David Halberstams The Best and Brightest or Neil Sheehans A Bright Shining Lie, I expect Hortons book to not just explain and interpret a current American war, but to explain and interpret the all too predictable future American wars, and the unavoidable waste and suffering that will accompany them. - Capt. Matthew Hoh, USMC (ret.), former senior State Department official, Zabul Province, Afghanistan, Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy

Fools Errand is a hidden history of Americas forgotten war, laid bare in damning detail. Scott Horton masterfully retells the story of Americas failed intervention, exposes how Obamas troop surge did not bring Afghanistan any closer to peace, and warns that the conflict could go on in perpetuity - unless America ends the war. As Trump threatens to send more troops to Afghanistan, Horton shows why the answer to a brutal civil war is not more war, which makes Fools Errand a scintillating and sorely needed chronicle of the longest war in American history. - Anand Gopal, journalist and author of No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes