Episode 125: Anand Gopal
b'Anand Gopal has written for The Wall Street Journal, Harper\\u2019s and Foreign Policy. He\\u2019s the author of No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes.\\n\\n\\u201cWhen I got to the Taliban, I got out my notebook and tried to ask the hard-hitting questions. \\u2018What are you fighting for? Why are you doing this? What\\u2019s happening with the civilians you\\u2019re killing?\\u2019 And of course you do that and you get boilerplate answers and icy stares. So I just started asking them questions about their childhood. ... People love to talk about themselves and he began to open up and very subtly something shifted and it no longer became about the war and America versus the Taliban, it became about him being an Afghan and his experience.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to TinyLetter and Lynda for sponsoring this week\'s episode. If you would like to support the show, please leave a review on iTunes.\\n\\nShow Notes:\\n@Anand_Gopal_\\nanandgopal.com\\n[9:00] Longform Podcast #1: Matthieu Aikins\\n[12:00] "Ousted By Iran, Afghan Refugees Languish At Home" (Inter Press Service \\u2022 Feb 2008)\\n[18:00] "Kandahar\\u2019s Mystery Executions" (Harper\\u2019s \\u2022 Sep 2014)\\n[19:00] No Good Men Among the Living (Metropolitan Books \\u2022 2014)\\n[28:00] "Welcome to Free Syria" (Harper\\u2019s \\u2022 Aug 2012)\\n[28:00] "Decoding the Syrian Propaganda War" (Harper\\u2019s \\u2022 Aug 2012)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'