The Taliban Gang Raped My Friend's Sister

We Should Be Ashamed Of Ourselves

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with the Taliban Delegation in Doha, Qatar, on September 12, 2020 (Commons)

I’ve seen the wreckage of war. Once you’ve been around it long enough, you don’t look at the world the same.

In 2006, I responded to my first car bomb in the Karrada Peninsula. It wasn’t a mass casualty event, but it did kill a few …