War's suffering falls on Afghan civilians and US soldiers alike - Sarah Chayes

It’s a nightmare image: A hulk of a man, his head inflated by an outsize helmet, a flak jacket puffing up his chest, his hands clenching an M-4 rifle, violates the intimacy of Afghan villagers’ homes, their living quarters shielded by thick mud walls, bony children sleeping jumbled in a single vaulted room with their careworn parents. - War's suffering falls on Afghan civilians and US soldiers alike
Afghanistan presses for answers on long-term US military bases