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| West leaves a legacy in Kabul |
| 2023-07-17 |
| [BangkokPost] While the Taliban have erased most obvious vestiges of the US nation-building effort in Afghanistan, the cultural legacy of two decades of American occupation has been harder to stamp out There's a glimmer of the old Kabul hiding in the new one -- if you know where to look. It's there in the crowded snooker halls where young men in jeans hover around velvet tables and yell "nice shot" in English. It lives on in the dark rooms of video game dens where teenage boys lounge on couches playing Call of Duty and Fifa, posters of famous footballers plastered on the walls. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 I was there in the early days. First trip was 19 Jan 2001 to about 31 Jan 2002. We hand pumped gas from 55 gallon drums on the main street. Kabul Airport was in shambles and we flew in to Bagram on... well you know. Slept in the Embassy w/broken windows and no running water. Travelled around to Herat, Mazar, and Kandahar w/Ambo. Many TDYs (6) and a year long assignment in 2014/15. Like many - left a part of me there. |
| Posted by: Bangkok Billy 2023-07-17 07:16 |