Love and War in Afghanistan Group 1

Firstly, I would like to start off by saying that this book is tremendously interesting and I am learning a large amount of information from it.

Collectively, I am astonished by the death that the individuals that I read about had to undertake. While the individual stories were very diverse, they can all be united by the fact that they have lost someone who is very close to them through sickness or through death that typically was caused by Soviet invasions or by the Taliban.

The Taliban, which I was able to get a better sense of in this text, seems to be a group that is tremendously heartless. The portion of the text where they stood 240 men in a line and shot them one by one was revolting but also tremendously hard to believe. The author went into great detail of the deaths of these individuals and also the blood and in some cases pieces of their brains that covered them. However, also within this text it was proved that not all of the Taliban is heartless.

The stories of these individuals were able to put things in perspective for me as well. The life that we live in America is one that is entirely different. I could not imagine living in a tent, getting repeatedly raided, and being in the presence of individuals who are so selfish that they can't see the effects that their actions will have. That is not to say that America is a perfect place to live because we have our problems as well, however the problems that these individuals face are unfathomable.

This reading was packed full of information however, I was particularly interested in the role of women and their courage. In particular in the last section of the book, Mino, who was madly in love with her husband, was soon divorced. This was done by saying three words. Does this seem peculiar to anyone else?