| The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001–2014 | |
| Author: | Carlotta Gall |
| Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Pub Date: | 2014 |
| Pages: | 352 |
| Isbn: | 978-0-544-04669-6 |
The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001–2014 is a 2014 book by Carlotta Gall. In the book, she argues that the United States and its allies have been focused on stopping the terrorist activities of al-Qaeda and its Taliban supporters in Afghanistan, but that focus should instead have been on antagonistic forces in Pakistan.[1] She claims that the Taliban exists and Osama bin Laden was able to survive for so long because Pakistan's government and the people at the Inter-Services Intelligence provided support to them.
Gall argues, using quotations from the area's leaders, that the US should have fought al-Qaeda and the Taliban inside Pakistan instead of going to war in Iraq in 2003.