Reportagem no New York Times por David Rohde, o ganhador de dois prêmios Pulitzer que foi sequestrado pelo Talebã e escapou após 7 meses.

Em resumo: os norte-americanos perderam a guerra, e o Talebã é hoje uma organização forte que se radicalizou ainda mais e controla o país.

Over those months, I came to a simple realization. After seven years of reporting in the region, I did not fully understand how extreme many of the Taliban had become. Before the kidnapping, I viewed the organization as a form of “Al Qaeda lite,” a religiously motivated movement primarily focused on controlling Afghanistan.

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The Taliban government that had supposedly been eliminated by the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan was alive and thriving.