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I was struck by the irony of the fact that the only Western reporter that the Taliban, the most misogynistic of regimes, had allowed back into Kabul was a woman. I remembered a comment from a Taliban visa officer at the end of a particularly heated discussion. He stopped talking, looked at me, and said: "We have a name of a person like you—a man."
— May 19, 2014 01:35PM
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The West has to take a critical look at itself and examine the apparent double standards at work that allow it to attack Iraq for possessing weapons of mass destruction but not North Korea, whose leader shared Saddam Hussein's megalomaniacal qualities.
— May 19, 2014 05:29PM
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Afghanistan's tragedy is that to the world's powers, it has never really mattered—or has not mattered for long. It has never been valued for itself.
— May 19, 2014 05:27PM
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The United States also pumped out inspirational literature of its own for the Afghan refugee camps, where U.S.-printed school books taught the alphabet by using such examples as: J is for Jihad, and K is for Kalashnikov, and I is for infidel.
— May 19, 2014 05:23PM
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So, yet again, Afghanistan got nothing. Nor did America. In 1999, the only apparent winner was the unopposed Osama bin Laden.
— May 19, 2014 01:32PM
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There is one truism in Afghanistan: Strength equals respect, weakness equals fear.
— May 19, 2014 01:29PM
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"I change, you change, he changes. Everyone changed," said Hekmatyar without a hint of remorse. That was the extent of his explanation. But some things could never be changed: My mind filled with images of his victims and of the victims of all the mujahedeen leaders.
— May 19, 2014 01:24PM
