In Afghanistan,I reported on the costs of war—and learned from the Green Berets approximately how to liveTrue stories of combat defy retelling. So I won’t order you a war fable here. But I will relate one conversation I had in Afghanistan early in the war.
It was in the desert outside Kandahar, the Taliban’s spiritual capital and final holdout after the American counterattack following 9/11. I was embedded with the Green Beret A Team that had joined Hamid Karzai and his militiamen to rout Mullah Omar, and the Taliban’s one-eyed leader,and liberate Kandahar. Mullah Omar was soon to take up hiding in Pakistan. Hamid Karzai was soon to become president of Afghanistan.
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