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Mullah Mansour's Theatrical Triumph, and Our Loss

During November 2010, at the same time that the Berkeley Repertory Theatre hosted a day-long cycle of plays about Afghanistan, featuring England’s Tricycle Theatre company in carefully rehearsed scenes of warfare, negotiation, and treachery, a more daring theatrical performance took place in Afghanistan. Leaders of state met an impostor who said he was Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, the Taliban’s second highest commander. The alleged Mullah engaged in several negotiating sessions with officials of NATO, including American representatives, and he even met Afghan President Hamid Karzai in the presidential palace. Rarely have actors been accorded such negotiating power. For his visits, the Mullah was paid quite handsomely; although it may have been written off as “travel expenses,” the money was meant to encourage other Taliban leaders to support Karzai’s regime. The payments turned out to be wasted — like most of the funds the United States spends on the Afghan war — as Western diplomats won no concessions from the Taliban, and the impostor vanished.