On 3/23/15 6:10 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > By an eerie coincidence, the very day I was writing my review of Anand > Gopal’s “No Good Men Among the Living”, the N.Y. Times reported on his > assassination. The Times might be good at reporting the facts but they > tend to be disjointed. The article below quotes Anand on why Matiullah > was killed but fails to place him into the broader context of Afghan > politics. The passage from “No Good Men Among the Living” that follows > the NY Times article will give you a better idea of how people “succeed” > in Afghanistan, which is the same way that Tony Soprano succeeded but > with the added complication of overlapping with some progressive steps > forward, including his support for Heela’s candidacy as the first female > senator in Afghanistan. If you’ve read my CounterPunch review of “No > Good Men Among the Living”, you’ll recall that she was a courageous > woman who defied paternalistic oppression—thus antagonizing both the > Taliban and the miserable warlords like Matiullah Khan who they sought > to overthrow. > > full: > http://louisproyect.org/2015/03/23/the-assassination-of-matiullah-khan/
The first sentence--thankfully--had a typo. It was not Anand (thank god) who was assassinated but a warlord he wrote about. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
