What had she learned? She learned that sometimes the young men who fired rockets at her base only did so because they had no money, and the Taliban paid them $100 for every rocket. She learned that over 75% of international aid was spent and distributed in the capitol city of Kabul. There was little to no help for rural areas, little jobs to be had. She learned that women were equally demonized and cherished, depending on how one interpreted the Quran. But she didn’t say those things. Instead she simply said, “That it’s complicated.”
