It is a wonderful reading and I am very happy to find it.  It is the right
time for us to shed our ignorance about Afganistan.  Thanks for the
material.
Zoltan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles McGehee" <chasm@ELLTEL.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 11:00 PM
Subject: Afghanistan -- no vanagon content

> Rudyard Kipling once wrote:
>
> When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
> And the women come out to cut up your remains,
> Just roll on your rifle and blow out your brains,
> And go to your Gawd like a soldier.
>
>
> We would all do well to know more about Afghanistan.  There's a cool
> website with a brief history of the First (first! there were three)
> Afghan-British war.  In it the author says:
>
> "Known to Europeans since the days of Alexander, Afghanistan is a land of
> mountains, ferocious warriors, uncompromising Islam, vicious tribal
> rivalries and a political complexity that entwines bloodlines, religion,
> history, opportunism and treachery into a mix as incomprehensible to the
> outsider today as it has ever been."
>
> We seem to think the Russians are the only ones who have failed there,
and,
> worse, we seem to think we, with our gadgets and gizmos, are smarter.  I
> wonder.
>
> Click on
>
> http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/5443/afopen.htm
>
> for more.
>
> Charles
> '85 Westy