Muslims.
Capable of ruining a society even faster than a Democrat.
Thank you for posting.
Calling it “the Paris of Central Asia” isn’t saying much.
Pittsburgh calls itself “the Paris of Appalachia.”
And Utica is the Paris of upstate NY.
Islam happened.
Women in Kabul could wear Western clothes, but out in the country, not so much. I trained to be a Peace Corps Volunteer in the late 60s and we were told to not even mention or refer to any Afghan woman—wife, mom, sister—it could well cost us our lives. Yes, there were some Afghan prostitutes but even patronizing one of them could get us killed.
So if that was the ‘Golden Age’ to be looked back at nostalgically; it wasn’t all that golden in 95% of Afghanistan
We have too many scholars in charge and not enough hard men who have the will to protect a garden from weeds.
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Many great powers have tried their hand at converting Afghanistan to a democracy and they have all failed miserably. The US, the Russians, Great Britain all thought they were smarter than the Afganis and could install a stable democracy into the country but in the end realized they could not.
After watching the film and reading about the Taliban taking over the country, I can assure you there will never be another golden age of Afghanistan.
I traveled/flown all over AFGH for 22 months - North and South, East and West - the natural beauty of that “Country” is amazing... I was thinking tourist heaven...
Iran was the same way then the democrats supported the muslims there. South Vietnam was free until the democrats withheld military support. Millions died, millions more lives ruined.