Anand Gopal's No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War through Afghan Eyes, published seven years before the Taliban took control of Kabul for a second time in 2021, helps explain their victory, writes Chris Slee.
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War through Afghan Eyes By Anand Gopal Picador, New York, 2014 Reviewed by Chris Slee This book, published seven years before the Taliban took control of Kabul for a second time in 2021, helps explain their victory.
What happened to news about Afghanistan? After their spectacular sweep of the entire country and overnight victory, there is no news now. And Taliban websites remain closed. Just human interest stuff about traitors/ cowards/ whatevers fleeing to the US or wherever. A convening of Afghan women parliamentarians, holding a mock Afghan parliament in exile (a […]