Oct 24, 2010
NYT OP-ED COLUMNIST, By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Published: October 23, 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan Pari Gol, an illiterate woman from Helmand Province, prayed for the fall of the Taliban back in 2001. But since then fighting has cost the lives of her husband and daughter,...
Oct 21, 2010
NYT, OP-ED COLUMNIST, By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, October 20, 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan A visitor to Afghanistan who ventures outside the American security bubble sees pretty quickly that President Obama’s decision to triple the number of troops in Afghanistan has resulted,...
Oct 19, 2010
NYT, OP-ED COLUMNIST, By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, October 16, 2010 A few vignettes to explain why I believe America’s strategy in Afghanistan isn’t working: Scene 1: A home in Kabul where I’m having tea with a remarkable woman, Soora Stoda, who runs a logistics company...
Oct 19, 2010
By Matthew Green in Hajigak, Published: October 11 2010 19:39 On a boulder-strewn ridge in the Hindu Kush, Atiq Sediqi is deep in conversation with a rock. His means of communication: a tiny magnet dangling from a thread. As if performing a conjurer’s trick, the...
Oct 12, 2010
October 3rd, 2010 by Jake Chapnick One of the reasons the West fails to comprehensively understand Afghanistan and its people is because there has been limited access to its rural areas. According to the United Nations, there are over 10,000 settlements in that...
