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⁵⁶ David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill, A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides (New York: Viking, 2010).

⁵⁷ Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan (New York: Viking, 2012), p. 150.

⁵⁸ Goldberg and Ambinder, «The Ally from Hell».

⁵⁹ Barnett R. Rubin and Ahmed Rashid, «From Great Game to Grand Bargain: Ending Chaos in Afghanistan and Pakistan», Foreign Affairs, November/December 2008, pp. 30–44.

⁶⁰ Наилучшее представление о войне и роли Пакистана в ней сделано: Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (New York: Penguin Press, 2004).

⁶¹ Bruce Riedel, Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America and the Future of Global Jihad (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2011).

⁶² Imtiaz Gul, The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan’s Lawless Frontier (New York: Viking, 2010), pp. 112—29.

⁶³ Цит. по: Mohsin Hamid, «Why They Get Pakistan Wrong», (New York Review of Books, September 29, 2011), http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/sep/29/why-they-get-pakistan-wrong/?pagination=false.

⁶⁴ Zahid Hassain, «Pakistan’s Most Dangerous Place», Wilson Quarterly, Winter 2012, http://www.wilsonquaterly.com/article.cfm?aid=2097.

⁶⁵ William Safire, «Wide World of Words», New York Times, April 26, 2009, p. MM16.

⁶⁶ Pir Zubair Shah, «My Drone War», Foreign Policy, March/April 2012, pp. 58–62.

⁶⁷ Jane Mayer, «The Predator War», New Yorker, October 26, 2009. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/26/091026fa_fact_mayer; David Sanger, Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power (New York: Crown, 2012), pp. 243—70.

⁶⁸ Krasner, «Talking Tough to Pakistan», p. 87.

⁶⁹ Riedel, «New Pakistan Policy».

⁷⁰ Seth Jones, Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of Al-Qaeda Since 9/11 (New York: Norton, 2012), pp. 417—32.

⁷¹ Peter Bergen, Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad (New York: Crown, 2012).

⁷² Sanger, Confront and Conceal, p. 10.

⁷³ Eric Schmitt, «Lull in Strikes by U. S. Drones Aids Militants in Pakistan», New York Times, January 8, 2012, p. A1.

⁷⁴ Karen DeYoung and Karin Brulliard, «’A New Normal’ for U.S., Pakistan», Washington Post, January 17, 2012; http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/as-us-pakistani-relations-sink-nations-try-to-figure-out-a-new-normal/2012/01/13/glIQAklfw3P_story.html.

⁷⁵ Gordon M. Goldstein, Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam (New York: Henry Holt, 2008), pp. 178 and 186.

⁷⁶ Там же.

⁷⁷ George Stephanopoulos, «The Must Read Book for Obama’s War Team», ABC News, September 22, 2009, http://abcnews, go.com/blogs/politics/2009/09/the-mustread-book-for-obamas-war-team/.

⁷⁸ См. интервью Обамы Джеффри Голдбергу: «Obama to Iran and Israel: ‘As President of the United States, I Don’t Bluff’» Atlantic, March 2, 2012, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/03/obama-to-iran-and-israel-as-presidenr-of-the-united-states-i-dont-bluff/253875/.

⁷⁹ Goldstein, Lessons in Disaster, p. 184.

⁸⁰ Vali Nasr, «Obama Needs to Go the Whole Mile on Iran Diplomacy», Bloomberg View, March 13, 2012, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012—03–13/obama-need-to-go-whole-mile-0n-iran-diplomacy-vali-nasr.html.

⁸¹ Michael R. Gordon and General Bernard E. Trainor, The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq from George W. Bush to Barack Obama (New York: Pantheon, 2012), pp. 321—28.

⁸² Stephen Graubard, «Lunch with the FT: Henry Kissinger», Financial Times, May 24, 2008, http://www.ft.com/intl/cvs/s/0/6d4b5fb8—285a-11dd-8fle-000077b07658.html#axzzlpIrOuTFv.

⁸³ James Dobbins, After the Taliban: Nation Building in Afghanistan (Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2008).

⁸⁴ Burnett Rubin and Sara Batmanglich, «The U.S. and Iran in Afghanistan: A Policy Gone Away», MIT Center for International Studies, October 2008, http://web.mit.edu/cis/editorpick_rubin08_audit.html.

⁸⁵ Из интервью автора с бывшим сотрудником иранского правительства, присутствовавшим на той встрече с Хаменеи.