Power blackout in Kabul

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36. Sadly those in the White House had their eyes set on Baghdad, not Kabul.

I guess there was no one saying concentrate on helping Afghanistan’s people to opt for civilization rather than this patriarchal suicide squad. Instead Rumsfeld and Company did untold damage to this country and the Middle East.

"Fractured by internal conflict and foreign intervention for centuries, Afghanistan made several tentative steps toward modernization in the mid-20th century. In the 1950s and 1960s, some of the biggest strides were made toward a more liberal and westernized lifestyle, while trying to maintain a respect for more conservative factions. Though officially a neutral nation, Afghanistan was courted and influenced by the U.S. and Soviet Union during the Cold War, accepting Soviet machinery and weapons, and U.S. financial aid...."

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/07/afghanistan-in-the-1950s-and-60s/100544/