Hell of a week

Haiti, Afghanistan, white terror, and an update on the book

A week ago today I closed my computer, signed off Twitter, and prepared for a much-needed shabbos rest with my family. How charmingly naïve. Within hours I would be jolted back to work by my worst nightmare: another magnitude-7+ earthquake in Haiti. America’s client government in Afghanistan fell to the Taliban later that day. Then Haiti got hit by anot…