The Things They Carried: The Afghan Policewoman
A BlackBerry knockoff, a pocket knife, and salt to throw in the eyes of bad guys.
INTERVIEW BY ANNA BADKHEN | NOVEMBER 2011
Thorne Anderson
Anna Badkhen is the author of Peace Meals and Waiting for the Taliban. She is writing a book about timelessness.
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There can be no justification for the expenditures of the human and financial resources in a country that was tribal at best and probably no more than familial in it structure. A functioning central, civil government was and is impossible to sustain in Afghanistan. If our goal was to wipe out a home for al Qaeda and the regimefitnessthat supported it, we have done that. We can no longer commit to creating a functioning government. There has not been one historically and to assume we can create one is merely the figment of someone's imagination.