How isolated and how primative the living conditions are. The Afghan people have been living a horror story for the last 50 years. It's been one war right after another, one tyrant after another. Our guys are showing them kindness and compassion for the first times in their lives.
We will never be able to bring the entire country forward, but there will be a few and they can begin the work that will eventually help.
The best news is that the youth are eager to learn in the region. I have a photo where children were writing on their palms and holding them up to our troops in order to prove they could write. They were asking for a school.