The New York Times has begun publishing a five-part series by its correspondent David Rohde, who was held as a hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan for seven months. In his piece, Rohde says that Washington’s anti-terrorism policies have galvanized the Taliban. Rohde writes, “Commanders fixated on the deaths of Afghan, Iraqi and Palestinian civilians in military airstrikes, as well as the American detention of Muslim prisoners who had been held for years without being charged.”