{"id":73371,"date":"2025-08-12T02:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2025\/aug\/11\/to-lose-a-war-jon-lee-anderson-taliban"},"modified":"2025-08-12T02:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:15:10","slug":"once-again-the-west-turns-away-a-new-book-recounts-the-fall-and-rise-of-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73371","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Once again, the west turns away\u2019: a new book recounts the fall and rise of the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Esteemed foreign correspondent Jon Lee Anderson\u2019s new book offers a full accounting of life in Afghanistan from before 9\/11 to now<\/p>\n<p>Jon Lee Anderson is \u201cnot done with Afghanistan\u201d, despite having reported on it for more than 40 years, through invasions, occupations, the rise and fall of the Taliban and two great power retreats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always want to go back,\u201d said the New Yorker staff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/contributors\/jon-lee-anderson\">writer<\/a>. \u201cIt gets into your skin. Afghanistan is an incredible place, an incredible society. It\u2019s always like time travel to me, and I knew people there that are larger than life. They stay with you \u2026 I may return shortly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2025\/aug\/11\/to-lose-a-war-jon-lee-anderson-taliban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esteemed foreign correspondent Jon Lee Anderson\u2019s new book offers a full accounting of life in Afghanistan from before 9\/11 to nowJon Lee Anderson is \u201cnot done with Afghanistan\u201d, despite having reported on it for more than 40 years, through invasions, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2539,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,511,71,752,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-books","category-culture","category-history-books","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73372,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73371\/revisions\/73372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}