Listen now | Noah Smith & Brad DeLong's 30:00 < [Length of Weekly Podcast] < 60:00: Key Insights: The Taliban should go to the World Bank and say: “For 42 years now, mechanized, airborne, and infantry armies and air and drone forces have been driving, walking, and flying over our country, killing us. that has done enormous amounts of damage. We are absolutely dirt poor. We will try as hard as we can: please give us money so that we can start call centers, start simple labor-intensive textile factories, and also beef up our handmade rug businesses so that we can export to pay for what we so desperately need. This is our only chance to make the lives of Afghans in the villages and even in Kabul better. This government would rather rule on the basis of honest, good government and prosperity. But if we cannot do that, others in our coalition will grow in power and rule on the basis of jihad”...
It would profit you to read Anand Gopal's No Good Men Among the Living, if you have not yet done so. And if you have done, well then I reckon it would profit you to read it again.
Have you got a recommendation for an analogous view of the Soviet invasion from the Afghan perspective? Braithwaite's Afghantsy is superb, but it is really about Soviets not Afghans.
It would profit you to read Anand Gopal's No Good Men Among the Living, if you have not yet done so. And if you have done, well then I reckon it would profit you to read it again.
Thx. It is a very good book...
Have you got a recommendation for an analogous view of the Soviet invasion from the Afghan perspective? Braithwaite's Afghantsy is superb, but it is really about Soviets not Afghans.
No, alas, I do not...
They might add that Muad-dib is waiting in the wings if they don't get the aid.
:-)