Afghanistan and the Taliban
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The Poverty in Afghanistan
Bridges were always extremely welcome over over the twisting and hard to ford rivers of afghanistan, exactly. The tunnels and the bridges, they were absolutely welcome. The roads were welcome. The hospitals, the clinic. It's just the social reforms. It's what they rejected. This is the old story, really, throughout the moslem world in the twentieth century. You want the material benefits of modernity, you don't want any of the social liberialization.
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