08-22-2021, 10:38 PM
(08-22-2021, 06:02 AM)Kenzo Wrote: "hardened soldiers' told him its the "worst thing they have ever seen in their entire career"
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Kabul is nightmare place for all those people......Thanks Joe for creating this mess
Afghans are a lot like American hillbillies - at least us old school hillbillies, and a few of the younger ones who have not been taken control of by the AI wifi cell phone networks. Like us, they are a fatalistic lot, and don't generally mind popping a cap in someone's ass if that someone really, desperately, needs a cap popped into his ass. When they are not trying to kill you, they are a very hospitable bunch, and have a culture of hospitality. They are also hard headed and difficult to train because of that stubbornness. Come to think of it, they are a LOT like American hillbillies!
So I was talking to a native Afghan, a Tajik tribesman who is in Kabul at the moment, and was there when the Taliban swept in. I asked him what he thought the Taliban would do now, and how it would affect him, and he said "Oh, they'll kill me" and then moved right on, like it was just a thing, a matter of course in the life of Afghanistan.
Because it is. And they have become fatalistically used to it over generations and millennia.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’