Anand Gopal
Anand Gopal
Anand Gopal is a journalist and author of No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War Through Afghan Eyes, which describes the travails of three Afghans caught in the war on terror. It was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction, the 2014 National Book Award and the 2015 Helen Bernstein Award. It was awarded the 2015 Ridenhour Prize for demonstrating "why the United States' emphasis on counterterrorism at the expense of nation-building...
ProfessionJournalist
scary
Seen through the eyes of a U.S. soldier, Afghanistan is a scary place.
saw towers
I was living near the Twin Towers on 9/11, so I saw the attacks, and I had friends who were killed in the attacks.
raids
If night raids and detentions are an unavoidable part of modern counterinsurgency warfare, then so is the resentment they breed.