Yeah I’ve got a buddy who’s fulll on “ready to go cut off Taliban heads” and full fucking credance... because “women and children are being slaughtered”
I’m like dude, the footage itself is super weird... secondly how do you even know anything is happening over there... his response “it’s all over the news” 😂😂😂
I point back to 1970s Afghanistan before we never stuck our hand in the pot... nobody wants to talk about that. There were no hijabs, no crazy extremist shit..
The men and leaders of the Taliban now, are the children that survived the bombings from Desert Storm... we’ve literally forced multi generations of hate into that territory. I’m Pro USA to my fucking core, but we haven’t always been that great and not sticking our hand in the cookie jar and making it rain steeel
Think about if China invaded us today and was successful. We would be the “Taliban” of the USA. Your sons would be the extremists Taliban fighting to rid the land of the unwanted Asians..
I was there in 1970, before the Soviets came, went by bus over the Khyber Pass where we could see an occasional grizzled Afghan in Rock colored clothes pop up with their amazing homemade rifles for a look, then sink down in the rocks again. I assure you that every Afghan women and little girl I saw in Kabul, Kandahar, and Herat was wearing a burqua, and men were ogling them hoping for a flash of ankle. Women and men did not mingle, women kept in groups for protection. Huge central market in Kabul, obviously the end point of all the Goodwill stores of the world. All booths run by men. They had music and a few tape stalls--I think it was the Taliban who took away all music. The local economy was driven by tourism, east and west and the Afghans obliged, politely but aloofly. Too bad if you had a problem, next embassy Tehran. At that time there was a regular bus service (not exactly Greyhound quality!) between Delhi to London, it was always busy and a pretty civilized way to get through. The Americans had built a nice ring road around the country which made this possible--maybe the CIA did it. Guess what, visitors from both west and east were after opium which was plentiful, cheap, and easy to get, along with their gunky hashish which was about $2 for a half pound. This was very dangerous for the people smuggling it back to Europe because if found in Iran or Turkey they would have been summarily shot. Anyway, this was your golden age in Afghanistan, cassette tapes and dead end opium addicts and all the sheep fat on rice you wanted.
Outstanding account! How far did you go by bus? Have you written more about these adventures?
Have you read any Peter Hopkirk's work? The Great Game? Or Kipling? Those men also had a great feel for the pulse of the region.
Yeah I’ve got a buddy who’s fulll on “ready to go cut off Taliban heads” and full fucking credance... because “women and children are being slaughtered”
I’m like dude, the footage itself is super weird... secondly how do you even know anything is happening over there... his response “it’s all over the news” 😂😂😂
It's a violent area and women and children suffer all over, not just Afghanistan. Blame the culture. Things were bad for them without the Taliban.
I point back to 1970s Afghanistan before we never stuck our hand in the pot... nobody wants to talk about that. There were no hijabs, no crazy extremist shit..
The men and leaders of the Taliban now, are the children that survived the bombings from Desert Storm... we’ve literally forced multi generations of hate into that territory. I’m Pro USA to my fucking core, but we haven’t always been that great and not sticking our hand in the cookie jar and making it rain steeel
Think about if China invaded us today and was successful. We would be the “Taliban” of the USA. Your sons would be the extremists Taliban fighting to rid the land of the unwanted Asians..
I was there in 1970, before the Soviets came, went by bus over the Khyber Pass where we could see an occasional grizzled Afghan in Rock colored clothes pop up with their amazing homemade rifles for a look, then sink down in the rocks again. I assure you that every Afghan women and little girl I saw in Kabul, Kandahar, and Herat was wearing a burqua, and men were ogling them hoping for a flash of ankle. Women and men did not mingle, women kept in groups for protection. Huge central market in Kabul, obviously the end point of all the Goodwill stores of the world. All booths run by men. They had music and a few tape stalls--I think it was the Taliban who took away all music. The local economy was driven by tourism, east and west and the Afghans obliged, politely but aloofly. Too bad if you had a problem, next embassy Tehran. At that time there was a regular bus service (not exactly Greyhound quality!) between Delhi to London, it was always busy and a pretty civilized way to get through. The Americans had built a nice ring road around the country which made this possible--maybe the CIA did it. Guess what, visitors from both west and east were after opium which was plentiful, cheap, and easy to get, along with their gunky hashish which was about $2 for a half pound. This was very dangerous for the people smuggling it back to Europe because if found in Iran or Turkey they would have been summarily shot. Anyway, this was your golden age in Afghanistan, cassette tapes and dead end opium addicts and all the sheep fat on rice you wanted.
Outstanding account! How far did you go by bus? Have you written more about these adventures?
Have you read any Peter Hopkirk's work? The Great Game? Or Kipling? Those men also had a great feel for the pulse of the region.