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How have the Taliban matured? Like this
From Harper’s Weekly Review: Taliban soldiers fired at a crowd of protesters, attacked reporters, and burned down a Kabul amusement park after riding the merry-go-round and bumper cars. “When it comes to experience, maturity, vision, there is a huge difference … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life, The god problem, War on women
Tagged Haji Wafa, Islamic scholars, Kandahar, Taliban, Zagihullah Mujahid
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What really happened in Afghanistan
Each morning when I turn on my computer, I go first to the Times and their opinion section. There I read maybe one essay and mark in my head the others I will want to read later. Today, amid the … Continue reading
Posted in Joe Biden and his people, Politics, The Facts of Life, War on women
Tagged Adam Nossiter, Afghanistan, Algeria, Battle of Algiers, Carter Malkasian, Charles de Gaulle, colonial wars, Damon Winters, Donald Trump, Gillo Pontecorvo, John Kennedy, Kabul, Mao, Mike Mansfield, New York Times, Patrick Chabal, pieds noirs, Taliban
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Re Afghanistan, last night I had a wave of guilt
…about what I’d written yesterday. When my fury overcame my keen awareness of my own Mid-East history ignorance. Guilt, because without any real knowledge of Afghanistan’s history, I trashed the country. Called it primitive, regressing to a state of misogynistic … Continue reading
Posted in Joe Biden and his people, Politics, The Facts of Life, War on women
Tagged Afghanistan, Afghanistan withdrawal, Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo
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