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come on because you re a novelist and a big thinker and i wanted to ask you about the drama behind this. the most powerful country on earth and then before it, the soviet union. another powerful empire that thought it could change this country. that thought it could bring it under its thumb. under its way of life and failed. one after another going back a longer history even than that. how do you see that drama today of these powerful empires and the reality of the country you come from? well, look, i think there s an understandable desire to just draw parallels and saw the united states failed just as the soviets did, but i want to draw, i do want to draw a distinction. you know, i don t believe that the afghan people rejected the presence of the u.s. the taliban are a small minority. nobody really knows how many there are in their ranks, but they are a tiny, tiny minority
coverage of the taliban s takeover of afghanistan. joining me now by phone, the afghan american novelist, khaled hoseini. the author of the kite runner. from the soviet invasion to chaos, refugee crisis to the rise of the taliban. he s also a good will ambassador for the united nations refugee agency. thank you so much for joining us. you spent your early childhood in kabul. what has it been like to watch the taliban take over the country again today? very hard to describe how devastating it is. absolutely nauseated. i woke up this morning. looked at my phone and saw that kabul had been taken over. haven t lived there in a long time, but will always have a deep connection with kabul. the events of the last few days
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