In Afghanistan It Is Time To Believe in Fairies
Sarah Chayes (you may remember her from NPR a few years back) now runs a cooperative business venture in Kandahar - once the stronghold of the Taliban. She tells a chilling tale of what happens at night after the police leave when the ‘Night Fairies”, the resurgent Taliban, come out. It is a description of a community broken psychologically as well as economically. It is time for us to ask ourselves: what were we thinking? and what are we doing? The article is entitled: Afghanistan: The night fairies.