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62Welcome to The Baron, the ONLY Place to Stay in Afghanistan
You have spent a long time getting to this backwards resort. You wanted to get away and into a more "rustic" environment where excitement sizzles and danger thrives at every turn. Go no further in Kabul, Afghanistan, than the 376 room hotel, The...
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58End Game in the Afghanistan War
Ten years from now, history will look upon this war much as it does on the Vietnam war- a waste of American life, money and time. Yes,some good did occur, we did build roads and modern infrastructure, setup a fragile government, got girls and women...
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74Javanese Royal Wedding of Keraton Yogyakarta New Generation.
It's always interesting when it comes to a topic about royal wedding. In this special occasion we can enjoy processions which often involve
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62The Lebanese bookseller
Traveling the world can be very exciting but sojourning the globe selling books is something else. One time Lebanese writer, now passed away was in love with European kings and queens. Week after week he would write a column for us on different...
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66‘Three Seated Monkeys’: About Poppy Fields, A War On Drugs, Spin and Wasted Lives.
On one day of each year the powers to be in Kabul invite Foreign Ministers from every country that provides commercial, financial and/or military aid to Afghanistan, to witness the annual opium and drug burning session. This fiasco is conducted to justify the billions of aid dollars given to corrupt politicians and local dignitaries, to enable them to stop the drug trade in Afghanistan. The West is actually feeding the very Crocodile that helps destroy the lives of many of our young!
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68Bookseller of Kabul Book Review
Sometimes in life it is pleasant to know that our lives are not as desolate, full of dull routine, or even as dangerous and desperate as those of others. This is one of the joys of reading -whether fictive or reality based literature. Such is the...
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56Digits That Are to be Avoided in Afghanistan
I suppose all societies have them. Some sort of odd thing or number that like a code for those in the know, means something. Usually it is bad or is code like texting acronyms that makes you decipher them. Even America had one in the 60s-70s,...
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64Remind Me- Why are We in Afghanistan?
With the death of Bin Laden and the corruption of the Afghan government, is there still good reason for foreign troops to be in Afghanistan?
10 comments64Ahmed Karzai: Pakistan is Our Main Afghanistan Problem
Despite the alleged ties and double dealing of President's Karzai's younger brother, Ahmed, who is in charge of Kandahar, a district known for its Taliban influence and haven, Ahmed recently was interviewed. CBS' 60 minutes did a story of him and...
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60Will We Be Told About Pakistan's Role On Al-Qaeda Now That Bin Landen Is Dead?
For those of you who read my previous article titled "Osama Bin Laden Killed by U.S. Navy SEALS at Abbottabad inside Pakistan," you are aware that it is a mystery concerningthe location of Osama Bin Laden's million dollar three-level compound, which...
