Counterblog

Foreign Policy
05/29/2010
By Mohammad Qayoumi

Record stores, Mad Men furniture, and pencil skirts — when Kabul had rock ‘n’ roll, not rockets.

On a recent trip to Afghanistan, British Defense Secretary Liam Fox drew fire for calling it “a broken 13th-century country.” The most common objection was not that he was wrong, but that he was overly blunt. He’s hardly the first Westerner to label Afghanistan as medieval. Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince recently described the country as inhabited by “barbarians” with “a 1200 A.D. mentality.” Many assume that’s all Afghanistan has ever been — an ungovernable land where chaos is carved into the hills. Given the images people see on TV and the headlines written about Afghanistan over the past three decades of war, many conclude the country never made it out of the Middle Ages.

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If you thought tree’s are boring, take a look at these trees. These are some of the most amazing trees you will ever see!

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I really need a vacation so i’ve been searching around the web for a nice place. I came a cross this.

These are the 10 most beautiful places you must visit at least once in your lifetime.

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The inca city of Machu Picchu
country : Peru
place : near Cuzco

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Just beautiful……..