Sad how many innocent people are caught up and killed in these wars.
Shattered Idyll in Kabul
They came to help. And then the Taliban killed them.
By AMIE FERRIS-ROTMAN
January 24, 2014
Last July, as I prepared to leave Kabul after a two-year stint as a journalist for Reuters, I visited La Taverna du Liban, a small Lebanese restaurant a few blocks from where I lived and worked.
There was no electricity that day, and the waiter shrugged politely when I mentioned it. I wasnt a regular at Tavernathis was my third visitbut I frequently ordered its takeout. I was saying goodbye to three Afghan friends, and we ate falafel and homemade hummus, served with warm bread and mint lemonade.
We sat in semi-darkness, chatting about their futures. One of them, a woman in her mid-twenties, is university-educated, speaks impressive, self-taught English and has an unwavering devotion to Che Guevara. She grew flustered when I asked her why she resists the temptation to seek a new life abroad, as some of her relatives have done. How can Afghanistan get better if there are no good Afghans living here? was her response.
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Shattered Idyll in Kabul
They came to help. And then the Taliban killed them.
By AMIE FERRIS-ROTMAN
January 24, 2014
Last July, as I prepared to leave Kabul after a two-year stint as a journalist for Reuters, I visited La Taverna du Liban, a small Lebanese restaurant a few blocks from where I lived and worked.
There was no electricity that day, and the waiter shrugged politely when I mentioned it. I wasnt a regular at Tavernathis was my third visitbut I frequently ordered its takeout. I was saying goodbye to three Afghan friends, and we ate falafel and homemade hummus, served with warm bread and mint lemonade.
We sat in semi-darkness, chatting about their futures. One of them, a woman in her mid-twenties, is university-educated, speaks impressive, self-taught English and has an unwavering devotion to Che Guevara. She grew flustered when I asked her why she resists the temptation to seek a new life abroad, as some of her relatives have done. How can Afghanistan get better if there are no good Afghans living here? was her response.
Continue reading at:
Shattered Idyll in Kabul - Amie Ferris-Rotman - POLITICO Magazine
