New and Old #19
Friday roundup and commentary
In Afghanistan, the rise and fall of ‘Little America’, Washington Post, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, August 5, 2011
Over the following decade, a legion of Americans hungry for adventure and hardship bonuses descended upon southern Afghanistan to join the vast, U.S.-funded nation-building project. Within a few years, they had built a model town from scratch. The…
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