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Sewing Circles of Herat
Cover via Amazon Sewing Circles of Herat by Christina Lamb. There is a tension between Afghanistan and Pakistan because they both claim some of the area that lies between them and because some Afghans...
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Cover of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday is an excellent novel made into a movie which my wife and I saw last evening. The movie version is very funny and I...
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Eric Newby
The four-masted barque Moshulu, the ship on which Eric Newby sailed. She is today a restaurant ship at Philadelphia, PA, United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Eric Newby was a legendary travel...
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Afghanistan revisited
Korean War Memorial (Photo credit: Cocoabiscuit) The US is training Afghan security forces so that our fighting men and women can be brought home. The Afghans are slated to be responsible for the...
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Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?
Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Board of Governors, The Federal Reserve Board, USA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The answer is hell yes. We are out of Iraq and we are drawing down our troops in...
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Declare victory
Afghanistan (Photo credit: Ricymar Fine Art Photography) As we did in Vietnam, I think that we should declare victory in Afghanistan and withdraw. We have driven al-Qaeda out of the country and into...
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Social capital
Democracy Now! (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Social capital makes democracy possible, and its absence makes democracy difficult as in the US now or impossible as in Afghanistan. This quotation is from...
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Bush and bin Laden
English: Osama bin Laden Compound Italiano: Il complesso di Osama Bin Laden (Photo credit: Wikipedia) George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden. The following is from Decision Points by George W. Bush and...
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What if?
, U.S. Senator from Nebraska. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) According to Chuck Hagel, “The Iraq and Afghanistan wars have not resonated with this generation the way previous wars did with other...
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We won (sort of)
Afghanistan (Photo credit: Ricymar Photography(Thanks Everyone!!!!)) In the contest called Afghanistan, the US has won (sort of). We outlasted the USSR in Afghanistan. Their war lasted 9 years while we...
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Pathan facts
帕斯顿人 / Pashtun People (Photo credit: Tianyake) From Pakistan, A Hard Country by Anatol Lieven. The Pathan tribe in Afghanistan represents about 40% of the total Afghan population, and they are a...
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Red dog/white dog
Anatol Lieven GPF2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The USSR was the red dog; the US is the white dog. From Pakistan, A Hard Country by Anatol Lieven. “And indeed, the view of the mass of the Pakistani...
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