by: Brandon Friedman

Tue Oct 21

I'd be willing to bet that most military readers, both here and elsewhere, would be uncomfortable--to say the least--with an American who embeds with the Taliban in southeastern Afghanistan.  I think I'm about as anti-Taliban as one could get, and when I first heard about the recent foray of journalist Nir Rosen into the world of the Afghan insurgency, I was ready to pass judgment.

But I gotta say, if you're against doing what he did, after you read his piece in the newest issue of Rolling Stone, you might change your mind.  There's a ton of value in this.

If it weren't for crazy people like Nir, we'd know a lot less about stuff.