Afghanistan Changed Everything, Part One - Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould’s new book “The Valediction: Three Nights of Desmond” (available at TrineDaydotcom) is a novelized memoir about America’s involvement in Afghanistan, which began in the 1970s as an obsession to give the Soviet Union its own Vietnam. As journalists, Paul and Liz witnessed first-hand how our involvement became a neoconservative cause celebre and the CIA’s largest covert operation in history, which is now undoing not only the American empire but also the concept of empire itself.