The Times evacuated not only its reporters, but also its translators, cooks, and drivers.
U.S.-occupied Afghanistan had been a divided realm; Afghans living in areas of relative calm tended to oppose the Taliban, but those living in war-racked regions often saw the Taliban as a better alternative to the corrupt U.S.-backed government.
Yet there was a deeper reason that the West got Afghanistan so wrong: members of the Western press corps, who are predominantly liberal and secular, had difficulty accepting the fact that much of the country they had devoted years to covering was so deeply conservative and religious.
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