Afghanistan pre USSR & USA

[ashling]

Afghanistan was often synonymous with political and religious strife throughout our day and age, but it was not always so: here is a very lovely photograph of girls in Kabul in the 1960s, and the smiling stewardesses of the 1960s Ariana Afghan Airlines:

[bif]

1. Times sure have changed

Thanks to us and the Taliban.

[whistler162]

2. Yup should have just left the USSR's puppet goverment

in charge once they took over!

GADS the rewriting of history!

[LeftinOH]

3. The USSR didn't banish women from public life and enforce burka-wearing,

nor deny them health care or education. In hindsight, we should have left the matter alone. Funding the Taliban opposition just made things worse. Not only that, boycotting the 1980 Moscow Olympics was unfair to the athletes who had been in training specifically for those games.

[elleng]

4. Nice, but don't see any smiles on those stewardii.

[hack89]

5. The Afghanis fucked it up themselves - read up on the Saur Revolution of 1978.

And Mohammed Daoud Khan's coup of 1973.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saur_Revolution