Article from The New Yorker
Did a quick search and found it wasn't posted. If so, flog me later.
At any rate, I work supporting the IT requirements of a number of educators. One of them brought the article to my attention.
Anyone find else find the connection between "The New Yorker" and the above article ironic? Eerie?
Some snippets..........
Afghanistan was never rich. During the war with the Soviet Union, men used to fight over the scrap iron of Russian bomb casings even as other bombs fell upon them; one entrepreneur actually posted mujahideen slogans in the desert so that the Soviets would bomb them and he could collect the metal.
"My two sons were both martyred by Masoud," an old beggar woman in Kabul had told me?illegally, since it was against the law for her to talk to me. "One lay for forty-seven days in a well. My husband was also martyred when the Masoud people stole his car. Now I'm looking for food in the streets. At least the Taliban won't kill me."
A very good read.
Did a quick search and found it wasn't posted. If so, flog me later.
At any rate, I work supporting the IT requirements of a number of educators. One of them brought the article to my attention.
Anyone find else find the connection between "The New Yorker" and the above article ironic? Eerie?
Some snippets..........
Afghanistan was never rich. During the war with the Soviet Union, men used to fight over the scrap iron of Russian bomb casings even as other bombs fell upon them; one entrepreneur actually posted mujahideen slogans in the desert so that the Soviets would bomb them and he could collect the metal.
"My two sons were both martyred by Masoud," an old beggar woman in Kabul had told me?illegally, since it was against the law for her to talk to me. "One lay for forty-seven days in a well. My husband was also martyred when the Masoud people stole his car. Now I'm looking for food in the streets. At least the Taliban won't kill me."
A very good read.
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