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Holiday in Afghanistan
In the winter of 2009 an Australian primary school teacher dared to visit Afghanistan as a tourist. In this interview, Nick Buckley, 29, provides a glimpse of the other side of Afghanistan – a country still celebrating lavish weddings, and where men get drunk and watch Chuck Norris films.
The natives have let us down again: Afghanistan policy continues to fail
The Obama administration have gone ‘realist’ in Afghanistan, with their rhetoric shorn of paeans to democracy. Now it is just a strategic war to maintain control of the region.