“Surrender to Kindness is not simply a Pashto proverb. It is a social value that all Afghans subscribe to, be they Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, etc. They all wish for peace, prosperity and pluralism in our beautiful country, through kindness, respect and modesty.”
“Surrender to Kindness serves as a blueprint for success in Afghanistan. It is now time for all of us to work closer for peace, using traditional time tested historic methods”
“Mr. Osman has proven the effectiveness of Surrender to Kindness to resolve conflict. Now is the right time for all of us to listen to his words.”
— His Excellency Said Jawad
Afghan Ambassador to the US
“I have goose-bumps as I contemplate this book that I have just finished in galley form. The author is unique, a mix of Philip Caputo (Rumor of War), Robert Young Pelton (Come Back Alive), and Ralph Peters (Wars of Blood and Faith), with one huge difference—this man, this author, this son of Afghanistan who is red, white, and blue American—has given us the definitive book on all that is wrong with the American ‘way of war,’ at the same time that he so clearly, so explicitly, so very simply, outlines the alternative path of how we can, we must, “wage peace” in Afghanistan.
“I am reminded by this author of Bonheoffer, of Gandhi, of Nelson Mandela.
“This is a book in which the souls of two nations come together, both dark and light, and we see in very personal terms, with deep cultural intelligence, that Afghanistan is unconquerable by force, but desperately seeking to connect and respond to kindness. It shames me that our government is so inept—and our population so abjectly disconnected from reality—that we have repeated Viet-Nam. Bagram Air Base is the Binh Hoa Air Base of my time; we once again seek to win hearts and minds while looking and acting like Darth Vader; and our military prisons are again filled with individuals framed by their enemies, imprisoned by gullible naïve uninformed Americans who mean well, but who are simply not trained, equipped, nor organized to wage peace.”
— Robert David STEELE Vivas
Co-founder USMC Intelligence Center, #1 Amazon Reviewer for Non-Fiction, Author on Intelligence
“Joe Osman has hit the bulls-eye with Surrender to Kindness, a radical manifesto for a totally re-thought approach to the war in Afghanistan. In clear powerful prose, Osman makes the case that the proud, xenophobic, tribal hearts of the Pashtun insurgents will never be won over by violence, but can be reached by true concern, care and generosity. Mr. Osman, an Afghan-American who has spent the last six years working for peace in Afghanistan, must be listened to.
“This book should be on the shelf of every citizen who takes seriously America’s struggles in Central Asia today–and in the future. We will never defeat the enemy by force, says Mr. Osman, but we can reach him by love–meaning genuine care, personal friendship and aid. This is not airy-fairy New Age humbug, but a deeply realistic assessment of the tribal mind.
“You can’t read Surrender to Kindness and not be changed by it.”
— Steven Pressfield
New York Times bestselling author of Gates of Fire, The Afghan Campaign and Killing Rommel
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“Surrender to Kindness serves as a blueprint for success in Afghanistan. It is now time for all of us to work closer for peace, using traditional time tested historic methods”
“Mr. Osman has proven the effectiveness of Surrender to Kindness to resolve conflict. Now is the right time for all of us to listen to his words.”
— His Excellency Said Jawad
Afghan Ambassador to the US
“I have goose-bumps as I contemplate this book that I have just finished in galley form. The author is unique, a mix of Philip Caputo (Rumor of War), Robert Young Pelton (Come Back Alive), and Ralph Peters (Wars of Blood and Faith), with one huge difference—this man, this author, this son of Afghanistan who is red, white, and blue American—has given us the definitive book on all that is wrong with the American ‘way of war,’ at the same time that he so clearly, so explicitly, so very simply, outlines the alternative path of how we can, we must, “wage peace” in Afghanistan.
“I am reminded by this author of Bonheoffer, of Gandhi, of Nelson Mandela.
“This is a book in which the souls of two nations come together, both dark and light, and we see in very personal terms, with deep cultural intelligence, that Afghanistan is unconquerable by force, but desperately seeking to connect and respond to kindness. It shames me that our government is so inept—and our population so abjectly disconnected from reality—that we have repeated Viet-Nam. Bagram Air Base is the Binh Hoa Air Base of my time; we once again seek to win hearts and minds while looking and acting like Darth Vader; and our military prisons are again filled with individuals framed by their enemies, imprisoned by gullible naïve uninformed Americans who mean well, but who are simply not trained, equipped, nor organized to wage peace.”
— Robert David STEELE Vivas
Co-founder USMC Intelligence Center, #1 Amazon Reviewer for Non-Fiction, Author on Intelligence
“Joe Osman has hit the bulls-eye with Surrender to Kindness, a radical manifesto for a totally re-thought approach to the war in Afghanistan. In clear powerful prose, Osman makes the case that the proud, xenophobic, tribal hearts of the Pashtun insurgents will never be won over by violence, but can be reached by true concern, care and generosity. Mr. Osman, an Afghan-American who has spent the last six years working for peace in Afghanistan, must be listened to.
“This book should be on the shelf of every citizen who takes seriously America’s struggles in Central Asia today–and in the future. We will never defeat the enemy by force, says Mr. Osman, but we can reach him by love–meaning genuine care, personal friendship and aid. This is not airy-fairy New Age humbug, but a deeply realistic assessment of the tribal mind.
“You can’t read Surrender to Kindness and not be changed by it.”
— Steven Pressfield
New York Times bestselling author of Gates of Fire, The Afghan Campaign and Killing Rommel
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