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Seen through the eyes of a U.S. soldier, Afghanistan is a scary place.
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Scary
Soldier
Eyes
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I was living near the Twin Towers on 9/11, so I saw the attacks, and I had friends who were killed in the attacks.
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Attacks
Twin
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After the Soviet withdrawal, many Afghan Communists had rebranded themselves as Islamists and joined the mujahedeen.
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If night raids and detentions are an unavoidable part of modern counterinsurgency warfare, then so is the resentment they breed.
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Never short of guns and guerrillas, Afghanistan has proven fertile ground for a host of insurgent groups in addition to the Taliban.
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Groups
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Insurgent
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Taliban
Addition
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Short
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When US-led forces toppled the Taliban government in November 2001, Afghans celebrated the downfall of a reviled and discredited regime.
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November
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Afghans
Celebrated
Forces
Reviled
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A military base in a country like Afghanistan is also a web of relationships, a hub for the local economy, and a key player in the political ecosystem.
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Web
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For years, Hizb-I-Islami fighters have had a reputation for being more educated and worldly than their Taliban counterparts, who are often illiterate farmers.
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Illiterate
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Unlike other Taliban groups, the Haqqanis' approach to mayhem was worldly and sophisticated: they recruited Arabs, Pakistanis, even Europeans, and they were influenced by the latest in radical Islamist thought.
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Mayhem
Sophisticated
Taliban
Worldly
Arabs
Europeans
Unlike
Influenced
Latest
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Some people will talk about how Afghanistan has improved, but they're really just talking about the cities. In the countryside where the war has been fought, it's really not that much better than it was in 2001.
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Afghanistan
Cities
Countryside
War Better People
Fought
Improved
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Al Qaeda's vision of global jihad doesn't resonate in the rugged highlands and windswept deserts of southern Afghanistan. Instead, the major concern throughout much of the country is intensely local: personal safety.
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Afghanistan
Concern
Jihad
Rugged
Safety
Al
Deserts
Intensely
Qaeda
Resonate
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The existence of the Taliban, in my view, is a tragedy for Afghanistan. We as Americans need to understand our role in helping bring that tragedy about. So I think it's important to look at the stories about why these people are fighting.
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Existence
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Tragedy
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In 2012, I received a phone call from the family of Arsala Rahmani, the Afghan senator with whom I'd become friendly. That morning, a gunman had pulled up alongside Rahmani's vehicle, idling in a crowded intersection, and shot him point blank.
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Afghan
Blank
Crowded
Friendly
Vehicle
Alongside
Senator
Idling
Intersection
Phone Call
Pulled
Received
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Afghan human rights campaigners worry that U.S. forces may be using secret detention sites like the one allegedly at Rish-Khor to carry out interrogations away from prying eyes. The U.S. military, however, denies even having knowledge of the facility.
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Detention
Facility
Human Rights
Military
Secret
Worry
Allegedly
Carry
Denies
Forces
However
Prying
Sites
Using
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Night raids are only the first step in the American detention process in Afghanistan. Suspects are usually sent to one of a series of prisons on U.S. military bases around the country. There are officially nine such jails, called Field Detention Sites in military parlance.
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Bases
Detention
Military Bases
Nine
Suspects
First Step
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Officially
Prisons
Sent
Sites
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The central thesis of the American failure in Afghanistan - the one you'll hear from politicians and pundits and even scholars - was succinctly propounded by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage: 'The war in Iraq drained resources from Afghanistan before things were under control'.
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Afghanistan
Drained
Pundits
Secretary
Thesis
Central
Deputy
Richard
Scholars
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In the summer of 2004, Malem Jan was sitting with Sirajuddin Haqqani, the second son of Jalaluddin, in their Pakistani base in the North Waziristan town of Miram Shah when they heard their names on the BBC. The Americans were offering $250,000 and $200,000, respectively, as rewards for information leading to their capture.
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Capture
Heard
Information
Offering
Rewards
Sitting
Son
Summer
Base
Bbc
Leading
North
Pakistani
Respectively
Second
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