Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/pig-roasts-and-parties-at-u-s-embassy-in-afghanista Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Story According to Rajiv Chandrasekaran, author of “Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan,” U.S. officials kept repeating the same diplomatic mistakes in Afghanistan. “They had a pig roast on the embassy compound, this in a Muslim country that finds the consumption of pork deeply offensive.”