The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban - Hardcover

Chayes, Sarah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594200963 ISBN 13: 9781594200960

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2006

Synopsis

An NPR correspondent presents an account of the return to the violence and corruption of warlord activity in Afghanistan after the displacement of the Taliban, revealing how the U.S. government assisted the return of corrupt militia commanders to the country. 100,000 first printing.

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Review:

"Her astute new book looks at the rot at the heart of the new regime, and
the fatal flaws in the US's peace-keeping and rebuilding strategies." -- FT Magazine, July 2007

A 'gripping account of post-Taliban Afghanistan... a hawkish call... to
engage with Afghanistan armed with knowledge, money, grit and
determination.' -- The Times Literary Supplement

About the Author:

From 1997 to 2002, Sarah Chayes served as an overseas correspondent for NPR, reporting from Paris and the Balkans, as well as covering conflicts in Algeria. When war broke out in Afghanistan in 2001, NPR sent her to report from Quetta, Pakistan, and then from inside Afghanistan, based in the southern city of Kandahar, as the Taliban fell. In 2002, she left NPR to take a position running a nongovernmental aid organization, Afghans for Civil Society, founded by Qayum Karzai. Now she has launched her own artisanal agribusiness, called Arghand. Her work as a correspondent for NPR during the Kosovo crisis earned her, together with other members of the NPR team, the 1999 Foreign Press Club and Sigma Delta Chi awards.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1594200963
• ISBN 13: 9781594200960
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 386