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Most Dangerous, Most Unmerciful
Afghanistan Stories
J. Malcolm GarciaSeries: Most Dangerous, Most Unmerciful(0)
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Timely literary reporting of Afghan people by one our most important nonfiction writers.
Reporting from Kabul and Kandahar between 2001 and 2015, J. Malcolm Garcia tells us what actually happened to the Afghan people as the conflict between first world nations and fundamentalists raged.
Here is Laila Haidary-everyone calls her "mother"-who, with no resources to speak of, gives addicts living on the street one month of detoxification and clean living, while at the same time sending her own children to make the perilous journey to Western Europe as best they can. Here is nine-year-old Ghani, who earns a few dollars a day collecting cans on the street to support his two brothers and sister now that his father has died of a brain tumor. Here are the translators and fixers Garcia hires, who are risking their lives working for foreigners against the warnings of the Taliban, and here also are the US soldiers who don't understand what their mission is here, and why they can't just do what they are trained to do, which is to seek out and kill the enemy.
Reporting from Kabul and Kandahar between 2001 and 2015, J. Malcolm Garcia tells us what actually happened to the Afghan people as the conflict between first world nations and fundamentalists raged.
Here is Laila Haidary-everyone calls her "mother"-who, with no resources to speak of, gives addicts living on the street one month of detoxification and clean living, while at the same time sending her own children to make the perilous journey to Western Europe as best they can. Here is nine-year-old Ghani, who earns a few dollars a day collecting cans on the street to support his two brothers and sister now that his father has died of a brain tumor. Here are the translators and fixers Garcia hires, who are risking their lives working for foreigners against the warnings of the Taliban, and here also are the US soldiers who don't understand what their mission is here, and why they can't just do what they are trained to do, which is to seek out and kill the enemy.