… may not exist:
“It’s about our culture as much as it’s about Afghan culture,” he says, “the country that we imagine doesn’t exist in the real world . . . where we mark the beginning of the war in Afghanistan — shortly after Sep 11, 2001 — the overwhelming majority of Afghans mark the beginning of peace.”
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“If you’re standing on a veranda on a Friday as the sun is going down and the muezzin prayers are coming from the minarets and you can hear helicopters in the distance and maybe what you think is the sound of gunfire and an Italian diplomat is whispering in your ear about how horrible things are [while] you’re sipping your cocktail . . . it can feel like you’re looking at Phnom Penh before the Khmer Rouge rolled in.” “But if you’re down in the streets with the people, it doesn’t feel like that at all.”
Duly commented. Bless you, Terry Glavin!
Glavin is a truly wise person.
Why, then, are we bent on pessimism? The left use it as a means to an end but what does that say about the rest of us? Is it possible that at long last one may have a functioning Afghanistan or is that still a pipe dream?
Not the Afghanistan your mother told you about….
“Why, then, are we bent on pessimism? The left use it as a means to an end but what does that say about the rest of us? Is it possible that at long last one may have a functioning Afghanistan or is that still a pipe dream?”
Our particular mindset sees Afghanistan as a failure because there no gay and lesbian parade has yet been held in Kabul.