When a respected eighty-one year old scholar who has known Afghanistan since 1962 returns there in search of a way…
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War, Women, and the Taliban
It’s only dire necessity That’s taking me to war; And if I were a moneyed man I wouldn’t go for…
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When you’re losing bad on Afghanistan’s plains And the critics dare to question your gains Just roll to your geology…
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When I was five years old, the first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev, threatened to bury me.…
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Kabul, since 1776 the nominal if forever ignored capital of Afghanistan, hides itself within thousands of forbidding walls. Mounds of…
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