United Vegetative States of America

In The United Vegetative State of America, Anwaar Hussain, a former officer of the Pakistan Air Force, delivers a comprehensive and unsettling analysis of the dissolution of liberty in America and how an administration of neo-conservatives is using the threat of lost freedoms and increased terrorism as a justification for international aggression and violence. When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and began an era of brutal oppression, the United States recognized the opportunity to defeat what some called 'The Evil Empire'. Neighboring Pakistan was quickly identified an America's ally, while Afghanistan was being decimated by battle. With American and CIA assistance, an organized and highly efficient Islamic opposition (Jihad) was cultivated, the ranks of freedom fighters soon swelling to hundreds of thousands. Funds from the United States and oil-rich countries poured into the region, warfare increased, and The dream became reality: the Soviet Union fell. With no enemy to battle, Americans turned their back on Pakistan and went home, abandoning a passionate army of Muslims, many of whom fanned out far beyond the region to stoke the fires of Islamic fundamentalism. What the neo-conservative Americans created would eventually come back to haunt the entire country. . .and risk driving its powerful ally, Pakistan, to the brink of destruction.