Thanks Laura for being open and candid; let's say if we are able to travel back in time before the Taliban, a time when the Soviet Invasion had just ended! How was that time for Afghanistan?
Read this article from Freidman today, how aptly has he presented the case for this dusty beige piece of rubble called a country.
In my opinion, the White Man's Burden should now be shelved and for God's sake leave us brutes in the East on our own, we will somehow survive.