Kabul should have restored to it the dignity lost over the past 25
years
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1793476,00.html
A fraction of the obscene amounts of money the west spends occupying
Afghanistan could preserve its history
Simon Jenkins in Kabul
Friday June 9, 2006
The Guardian
We declare war. We bomb. We conquer. We then pretend to rebuild. But
there is no rebuilding, just collateral damage. In Belgrade, Baghdad
and Kabul, the last three cities assaulted by Britain in war, millions
may be spent on aid, but buildings are left as piles of rubble.
Central Kabul was, until the 1970s, an ethereal place of baked mud
houses and gardens nestling among the foothills of the Hindu Kush, "the
light garden of the angel king". It then spent a quartercentury being
bombed and shelled by, successively, Russians, the Taliban, Afghan
tribes and western jets.
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