Reporters in Kabul increasingly complain they can no longer safely travel by road to Helmand and Kandahar provinces, as they could the first several years after the Taliban's ouster in 2001. Now the danger seems to be migrating north.
A number of reporters in Kabul are taking a lot of comfort from this story and when their editors back home want to know why they haven't left Kabul, they can send them a copy.
Six years on and Afghanistan is still a battlefield. How much more will the people of Afghanistan have to pay for living on a battlefield of US power projection in the war against the Soviets and Terror?
Originally posted by vvawtom: Six years on and Afghanistan is still a battlefield. How much more will the people of Afghanistan have to pay for living on a battlefield of US power projection in the war against the Soviets and Terror?
Perhaps I'm confused. According to the references, the "Soviets" ceased to exist in 1991?
