it's not the taliban government that suffers, it's not the people from government that suffer. it is the people who've been left on their own to suffer this. yogita limaye, just back from afghanistan. in ukraine recently, i talked to a man who'd been arrested by a group of russian soldiers. they'd started off by being pleasant enough, he said. "we're here to save you from the nazis," they told us. "just help us by telling us which the nazis are around here." when he tried to explain to them that there weren't any nazis as far as he knew, they got rather more unpleasant. but he could see they completely believed their government's propaganda. they were liberators, not occupiers. 5a years ago, when the russians invaded czechoslovakia in 1968, moscow's propagandists told their soldiers pretty much the same story — and they turned similarly nasty