Via Instapundit;
The good news is I’ve safely landed in Kabul. The somewhat bad news is the UN flight to Kandahar is booked, so I will head down there on Monday. But there is plenty to do in Kabul, and I’ve already dug around a little bit about the violence in the city yesterday after a US vehicle killed 1 to 3 Afghans during a traffic accident. The consensus among the folks I spoke to is the protests after the accident were staged by groups waiting for such an event to happen. I made the comparison to the reaction by some Islamist groups in Afghanistan (and elsewhere) after the Muhammad Cartoon riots, where the “spontaneous protests” were anything but. there was agreement on this point. I will likely post about this tonight or tomorrow.
I drove through the city twice today, and it is an interesting place. The city is scarred from decades of combat, however you can see people are working to rebuild. Shops are open, people and traffic are on the streets, and there are signs of new construction and rebuilding/repair projects. I saw several “land/title offices,” as well as signs for rooms for rent. Security is tight, and it seemed as if police were on every corner, no doubt a reaction to yesterday’s events. Unfortunately my camera was packed away, but I’ll get some shots tomorrow.
I’ve seen photos of new housing developments going up in Kabul. Bill’s comments remind me that I intended to get copies of those (and others) for you.
Dudley: “why give the moonbats ammo”
Keeps the blog stream alive
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mad mike
sure, bring it on!
First, I gotta break it to you as gently as I can…Iraq did not attack the USA. It was the other way around.
15 of the 9/11 terrorists were Saudi. None were Iraqi. Not one Iraqi was involved in 9/11. But that didn’t matter for some reason. Suddenly Saddam, who had been contained, Condi Rice said so shortly after Bush was elected, became this huge threat. Out of the blue, after 10 years blockading the country. They decide to attack???
They knew Iraq was defenseless. They knew it would be a slam dunk war. Is that a good reason to fight? IF they were interested in getting terrorists why did they suddenly divert into Iraq where paranoid Saddam wouldn’t tolerate any kind of potential challenge to his authority(that is the way these despots are, control freaks). The Americans attack the only country in the Middle East where the terrorists are least likely to thrive. I hope some day to read an accurate inside account of what they were thinking, if anything.
Dudley
Jesus sent me okay? he spoke to me yesterday in that deep voice of his and said, Save the wingnuts from themselves, PLEASE! Save them for they no not that what they think is but mere shadows on the walls of caves…deep caves…shallow shadows.
So I said I would try but I don’t know if it is possible. He said, You must try, I don’t want them coming up here in that condition! OK LORD, whatever.
steve, 9 of the hijackers sre still alive and never been taken off the fbi’s list.
But I see kate started another post showing that things aren’t that rosey over there.
Our troops are catching people and turning them over to be tortured, isn’t helping. But as usual our government listens to the US, even though we and the world know their lying to the people just about every time they open their mouths.
But as usual the people that come here can’t think for themselves and just follow the party line like good little morlocks.
agitfact,
RE; “the perpetrators this time do not even seem to be Socialists.”
We have no information about who wrote the disinformation or what their politics are.
steved,
RE:”Out of the blue, after 10 years blockading the country. They decide to attack???”
Pres. Clinton bombed Iraq many times.