Writing day in and day out about the collapse of this and the fall-out from that, it can be difficult to step back and assess where we are in Afghanistan’s broader narrative. I promise you that today, the soldiering attempt to seek some clarity in Afghanistan’s historical trajectory will break your heart.
The photographs that Foreign Policy magazine published not too long ago, are nearly shatteringly romantic, full of pride of all those things that Afghanistan once was; full of promise of all those things that Afghanistan could have been.
Look at the picture below taken from the FP photoessay. Could you not swear that this is a photograph of some record store somewhere in Rome in the 1960’s?
Please spend some time with the remainder of the photographs that you’ll find at this link.
