Ann Jones (2021-11-18). 'Now Is the Time to Be Angry': Afghanistan's Progressive Past and Dark Present. fpif.org I know, I know. It's the last thing you want to hear about. | Twenty years of American carnage in Afghanistan was plenty for you, I'm sure, and there are so many other things to worry about in an America at the edge of… well, who knows what? But for me, it's different. I went to Afghanistan in 2002, already angry about this country's misbegotten war on that poor land, to offer what help I could to Afghan women. And little as I may have been able to do in those years, Afghanistan left a deep and lasting impression on me. | So, while this country has fled its shameful Afghan War, I, in some sense, am still there.