US to begin direct peace talks with Taliban over Afghanistan

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Originally Posted by Dondilion

When you are wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,

And the women come out to cut up what remains,

Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains

And go to your Gawd like a soldier.

Rudyard Kipling


Afghanistan has been the grave yard of many foreigners.
There are some areas on God's earth which is best left to its ways and customs.

Now I see we are inching to get in the sectarian slaughterhouse in Syria.

We have spent billions of dollars in Iraq and the last I heard the Sunnis and Shias are
playing detonation derby.

I just fininshed reading Kim by Kipling....he is very modern sounding even after a century and you can tell how much he respects the people of South Asia (in that novel)