DISPATCHES FROM AFGHANISTAN: Inside the Haqqani Network, How the U.S-backed government opened the floodgates to the Taliban and Afghan Weddings in New Era
DISPATCHES FROM AFGHANISTAN: Inside the Haqqani Network, How the U.S-backed government opened the floodgates to the Taliban and Afghan Weddings in New Era
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“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience which is bitterest.” Confucius It is always a strange challenge to re-adjust to the “real world” after months away. In many ways, working out in the field is a simpler existence than the lives we lead in our western cocoons rife will bills and responsibilities and pressures and life expectations of a different kind. I think for me, working in far-flung places for significant stretches of time is so addictive because you develop quick and close bonds with those working around you. They become a close-knit support system and family which is contrasted with my much more fragmented and lonely life in the United States.
DISPATCHES FROM AFGHANISTAN: Inside the Haqqani Network, How the U.S-backed government opened the floodgates to the Taliban and Afghan Weddings in New Era
DISPATCHES FROM AFGHANISTAN: Inside the…
DISPATCHES FROM AFGHANISTAN: Inside the Haqqani Network, How the U.S-backed government opened the floodgates to the Taliban and Afghan Weddings in New Era
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience which is bitterest.” Confucius It is always a strange challenge to re-adjust to the “real world” after months away. In many ways, working out in the field is a simpler existence than the lives we lead in our western cocoons rife will bills and responsibilities and pressures and life expectations of a different kind. I think for me, working in far-flung places for significant stretches of time is so addictive because you develop quick and close bonds with those working around you. They become a close-knit support system and family which is contrasted with my much more fragmented and lonely life in the United States.