We have literally snatched the country away from being a society of troglodytes, by rebuilding.Very little is written or said about it.
And we get little thanks for it.
Well...if I had known! Infrastructure is vital to a unified state. I extend my thanks to the American tax-payer, one and all, and to the service units, contractors, specialists, and engineers that make it happen in Afghanistan.
My thought is that it may be an eastern example one of those ancient (Roman) roads one sees sometimes in Europe. A fragment of an old Successor state road, for example.