A review by buermann
The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Kim Barker

3.0

People like to pan this book as being more about Kim Barker than it is about Afghanistan, which is true, but it is a personal memoir and never pretends to be anything else. It's useful for understanding how foreign correspondents typically perform their jobs: partying and drinking copiously, attending press conferences, talking privately with officials, taking stenography of their lies and relaying them un-interrogated back to domestic audiences. With little domain knowledge and no language skills to speak of what else are they supposed to do?