'The Trump Administration’s launch of negotiations with the Taliban, last year, startled many women in Afghanistan.' (via NewYorker)
with American officials, diplomats, and commanders who expressed deep pessimism about the war. “We didn’t know what we were doing,” Douglas Lute, a three-star Army general who served in both the Bush and Obama Administrations, was quoted as saying, in a 2015 interview. An unidentified American official who served as a liaison toforces said in an interview that the U.S. never set clear goals in Afghanistan.
Nearly three-quarters of Afghans are under the age of thirty, meaning that most young women today grew up hearing of the horrors of life under the Taliban from their mothers rather than experiencing them firsthand. Their grandmothers also weaned them on nostalgic tales of the good days before the 1979 Soviet invasion. For younger Afghan women, the Taliban is a haunting presence that menaces major cities with car bombs and suicide attacks.
Shaharzad Akbar, the new head of Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission, won a scholarship to study at Smith College, in Massachusetts, and returned to Kabul after completing her masters at Oxford. “On days when the violence hits very close and you have these cases where we lose a lot of civilians and young people—those days, it’s hard to believe in the possibility of a better future,” she told me.
In the burn unit of the Istiklal Hospital in Kabul, four dazed young women sat on beds, staring into space. The ward smelled of filth and rotting flesh. Patches of skin not covered with bandages were raw pink or charred black. A cockroach scurried across the floor under one patient’s feet. There was no electricity on the day I visited. The staff stared blankly at me when I asked why.
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