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“Back then, I had no idea what would actually happen. That Pakistan and Afghanistan would ultimately become more all consuming than any relationship I had ever had. That they would slowly fall apart, and that even as they crumbled, chunk by chunk, they would feel more like home than anywhere else. I had no idea that I would find self-awareness in a combat zone, a kind of peace in chaos. My life here wouldn't be about a man or God or some cause. I would fall in love, deeply, but with a story, with a way of life. When everything else was stripped away, my life would be about an addiction, not to drugs, but to a place. I would never feel as alive as when I was here.”
― The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
― The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
“It wasn't necessarily the booze and brothels. It was the growing gap in the country between the haves and have-nots, the corruption, the warlords now in parliament, the drug lords doubling as government officials, the general attitude of the foreigners from aid workers to the international troops, and the fact that no one ever seemed to be held accountable for anything.”
― The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
― The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
“Regardless, I told my boss it was no longer a good idea for me to see Sharif. He was married, older, rich, and powerful. As a pleasant-looking, pedigree-lacking American with hair issues, I was an extremely unlikely paramour. But Sharif had ended our visit with a dangling proposition--the mysterious identity of a second potential friend. I decided to stick to a tapped-phone relationship.”
― The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
― The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
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