Read the actual New York Times article --- it's actually a fascinating, complicated story.
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It's here and it's actually a piece of garbage. It's interesting, sure, but heavilt spun and poorly written.
The conclusion is the Taliban weren't so bad and the "warlords" and opium traffickers who've been put back by the US are worse.
He follows the news from Afghanistan every day - increasingly dismayed, as are many, by the return of the warlords, the rise of opium trafficking, the lawlessness and violence that have plagued his country all his life.