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In Afghanistan
Image via Wikipedia In Afghanistan Bright light, great height In Afghanistan Bobbing kites take flight In Afghanistan Warring tribes always fight In Afghanistan They pray to Allah In Afghanistan Muslim...
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Geronimo
Recently, I read a book in which the Afghan freedom fighters told the author how they fought individual battles against Soviet troops and eventually with US help forced them to withdraw from...
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Afghanistan/Pakistan
Image via Wikipedia The Durand Line separates Afghanistan from Pakistan. It is an artificial border that took no consideration of the natural geography or of the tribal people living on both sides of...
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Kabul in Winter
Cover via Amazon Kabul in Winter, Life without Peace in Afghanistan by Ann Jones is what Afghanistan is like now for half its citizens, the female sex. Afghan men treat their women poorly, based on...
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Pakistan and the Taliban
Map of Pakistan (Photo credit: Omer Wazir) Pakistan supports the Taliban in Afghanistan and tolerates the Taliban in Pakistan. This is true because Pakistan regards India as its principal adversary and...
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Emulate Pakistan
education (Photo credit: Sean MacEntee) Pakistan is one the most poorly educated nations on earth. They spend 2% of GNP on education and 30% on defense. That leaves a tremendous vacuum to be filled and...
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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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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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Malala Yousafzai
English: Nobel Peace Prize 2009, Barack Obama (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Malala Yousafzai, the 16-year-old Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban, met with President Obama and told him that the use of US...
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