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To: Dawnsblood

“If Afghanistan were miraculously transformed into the Switzerland of Central Asia...”

That could only happen if the people would turn away from Islam.


4 posted on 09/29/2008 5:07:57 PM PDT by 353FMG (What marxism and fascism could not destroy, liberalism did.)
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To: 353FMG
If Afghanistan were miraculously transformed into the Switzerland of Central Asia...

It needed no miracle -just a sound religion and a wise king. Here he is: Menander II, under whom the Hellenistic Kingdom of Bactria was very close to being the Switzerland of Central Asia.


9 posted on 09/29/2008 6:31:26 PM PDT by John Locke
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