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In a breathtaking chronicle, acclaimed journalist Anand Gopal traces in vivid fine detail the lives of three Afghans trapped in America's conflict on terror. He uses a Taliban commander who rises from scrawny teenager to leading insurgent, a U.S.-backed warlord who uses the American military to get personal riches and electricity, and a town housewife trapped between your two attributes who discovers the devastating cost of neutrality. Through their dramatic stories, Gopal shows that the Afghan conflict, so often seen as a hopeless quagmire, could in reality have removed very in a different way. Top Taliban market leaders actually attempted to surrender within a few months of the U.S. invasion, renouncing all political activity and submitting to the new administration. Effectively the Taliban ceased to exist--yet the Americans were unwilling to accept such a turnaround. Instead, influenced by false intelligence from other allies and an unyielding mandate to combat terrorism, American causes sustained to press the discord, resurrecting the insurgency that persists even today. With its seductive accounts of life in war-torn Afghanistan, Gopal's carefully original reporting lays bare the workings of America's longest conflict and the reality behind its extended agony. A heartbreaking tale of errors and misdeeds, No Good Men Among the Living difficulties our normal perceptions of the Afghan discord, its victims, and its own supposed winners.
