I have a huge amount of respect for those folks.
That took a lot of guts.
I always wondered what made that Pepsi bottle smell so bad.
I’m overjoyed they rescued Luttrel.
Am I willing to chalk it all up to the much-ballyood “Pushtunwani”, the ANCIENT warror tradition of taking in the visitor and protecting him against his enemies, whatever the cost...?
WHAT A BUNCH OF MALARKY..!
It’s exploiting the western penchant to search around for Karate-Kidesque, Eastern mystic pseudo-religiosity.
Nah —he happened across folks who were super pissed at, “the devils who infest our otherwise perfect valley”.
Saving this honky was a way to get back at folks who ticked off these particular villagers, and maybe make a bit of scratch from the stupid honky’s rich friends.
GREAT MOVIE. GREAT RESCUER. CUTE KID.
Was it all apolitical pure generosity?
OH PLEASE. The whole country is over-run with camel-traders trying to figure out a way of making a dime or two off the latest imperial suckers.
I’M GLAD HE WAS RESCUED.
There is good and evil in this world, it is found in all races and religions. Not everyone is hateful, but the few that are, are evil. Those who are evil make life bad for everyone. Its too bad that righteous people allow them to become powerful by ignoring them until its too late to fix the problem. The end result is the innocent pay the highest price. I have a couple of Muslim friends, one is Pushtun, and we all get along well. If you believe the stereotype Islamic Terrorist fits the profile of all of them, you better consider if you are good or evil. It wasn’t the Muslims that killed 100 million people in the last century, it was EVIL people who were allowed to take over Governments, by those who sat back and let them. Take the Iranians for example, do you really think they want to kill all the Americans? Or is it just their EVIL mullahs who control them? Why don’t the average Iranian do anything? Well, why didn’t the average German or Russian do anything? They let the EVIL ones get control of them. There are more good people on this planet than what we give credit for. I’ll buy into this story, because its like the doctor who took the blood from the Bin Laden family. Human decency does exist.
Like the U.S. government discarded the Hmong?
Lets start there. And then clean out the Taliban. Come on you strategery mongers of Washington! Get with it Obama!!/S
That area is serious Indian country. Many of the local Afghani’s in Kunar hate the Pakistani’s (i.e. Taliban), who come from the Paki tribal area’s and attempt to destroy what little infrastructure they have(the just got electricity). They hate the Arabs who come the even worse than the Paki’s. The Arabs treat the locals like they are pieces of crap.
Book is really good, looking forward to the movie