A Photo Essay. One of These Things is NOT Like the Other… Afghanistan, Before and After the Taliban

Here is an upper-middle class family in Kabul in 1964…

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Here are segregated women forced to wear burqas in Kabul in 2009…

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Here is the Paghman Gardens in 1967, prior to the American-sponsored warfare in Afghanistan…

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Here is the Paghman Gardens in 2007, after the American-sponsored warfare in Afghanistan.

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Here is Hamid Karzai, the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan… propped up with YOUR tax dollars and the lives of YOUR kids… great.

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What would you think if an outside power started to arm, fund, and back some of the “Evangelical” wingnuts in this country? I don’t think that you’d care for it. That’s what happened in Afghanistan. WE funded and armed the Taliban… in a misguided attempt to “hurt” the Sovs. That’s right… “we have met the enemy, and he is us”… Walt Kelly, wherefore art thou?

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