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jaxexpat

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1. A major jewel among the avenues of the silk road for centuries.

Reply to tenderfoot (Original post)

Thu Aug 12, 2021, 05:11 AM

Aug 2021

The heroes of our languishing culture sees only another of the "stans". How quaint is our colloquial immodesty.

Graveyard of hubris, perhaps. Everybody's got to be somewhere. Even Afghanistan.

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An interesting take on Afghanistan [View all] tenderfoot Aug 2021 OP

A major jewel among the avenues of the silk road for centuries. jaxexpat Aug 2021 #1

The misconception is driven by the fact that empire building is always about the money pecosbob Aug 2021 #2

The problem there is a cultural embrace of a backwards fundamentalist religion Amishman Aug 2021 #3