When the Taliban Are in Your Bedroom

As fortified Taliban audited the New York Times office in Kabul, they were attended by a intelligencer who used to be aU.S. Marine. The print of him in livery was plain for all to see, and consider. KABUL, Afghanistan — When the Taliban are in your bedroom and there’s a snap of you on the wall holding an American flag, a rifle and dressed like a recruiting commercial for the Marines, you have to keep it together. Also there’s the kitschy mug on your office that you picked up from a shop just as Bagram Air Base closed in July. It reads, […]

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