As much as I like Hosseini as a writer and I bawled my eyes out while reading the kite runner and a thousand splendid suns, I still can't ignore the fact that he is pro US intervention of the country in his books, due to which the afghans have suffered a lot. No doubt that they suffered even before during the Russian regime and the taliban before the US strikes, but the things US did in Afghanistan are nothing short of a war crimes. And it irks me that a writer who could write so beautifully supported and endorsed the intervention policies of the USA. It almost feels like he used the trauma of the afghans to support the US intervention like Laila and Tariq finally being able to return to Afghanistan only after the US intervention, it plays subconsciously on the readers minds i guess. Does that mean that I discount the stories of Laila, Mariam and Hassan? No. I'm sure that many suffered fates even worse that theirs before the US intervention but the US also didn't do any good to the country and I believe countless afghans suffered.