More answers to your question, yes, Krakauer was fairly anti war - but he saw the problems if we left Afghanistan also.. he said that there would be beheadings of women and other horrors.
The whole country is tribal, and has hatreds from hundreds of years. After listening to the talk, I kept thinking of this excerpt from Kipling-
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Galt 2010- thanks- that would have been an interesting talk-he (Krakauer) used to live in the Seattle area so he must have moved- like the Kipling reference- bty like your call sign there- how I wish