Why I Sought Out a Taliban Commander I Had Fought www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/w... "what we got from our politicians & generals were evasions & lies. Our commanders could never articulate how our deployments & all the violence we committed & the losses we suffered, made anyone safer in the US."
Why I Sought Out a Taliban Commander I Had FoughtFirst as a Marine and then as a journalist, I spent years tied to Afghanistan. I returned one last time to speak to a former enemy in search of answers, and perhaps closure.www.nytimes.com