“I once strongly urged to a very intelligent old man of the
tribe of Meaunkhail, the superiority of a quiet and secure life, under a
powerful monarch, to the discord, the alarms, and the blood which they owed to
their present system. The old man replied with great warmth, and thus concluded
an indignant harangue against arbitrary power: ‘We are content with discord, we
are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be
content with a master.’”
Montstuart Elphinstone, “An Account of the Kingdom of
Caubul,” 1815
Top: Royal vehicle at the National Museum, January 2014
Middle: Heavy metal alongside the Kabul River, summer 2005
Bottom: Aftermath of a VBIED, hauled off Jalalabad Road, November 2005
(Photos: Jim Chiavelli)
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