“Soviets and Americans alike assumed that the inhabitants of
powerful states with large armies and weapons factories knew the present and
the future, while the Afghans knew only the past. The question was merely how
quickly and how violently, and under whose sponsorship, to force or invite them
into our modernity.”
Barnett Rubin, “The Fragmentation of Afghanistan,” 1995
Top: Old British Army rifles, undisclosed location, Kabul, December 2013
Middle: US Army checks out a kuchi caravan, Jalalabad Road, Kabul, summer 2005
Bottom: Armor graveyard, Kabul province, 2005
(Photos, as usual, by Jim Chiavelli, and I have lawyers, guns and money to defend 'em.)
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