Sunday, September 9, 2012

A Symbol Of What Is Wrong In Afghanistan


Kabul-Kandahar Highway Is A Symbol Of What's Gone Wrong In Afghanistan -- The Telegraph

It was built at massive expense as a symbol of success for the new Afghanistan, but instead the Kabul-Kandahar road has become a highway of death that shows what has gone wrong.

It is supposed to be a symbol of progress in the new Afghanistan, but as Nato prepares to withdraw its combat troops over the next two years the main road between the country's two largest cities has become instead a symbol of what has gone wrong.

Rather than providing a secure transport link between the Afghan capital, Kabul, and the country's second city, Kandahar, Highway One has become a highway of death.

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My Comment
: Actually .... there are numerous symbols of what's gone wrong in Afghanistan .... but this highway and the carnage that now occurs regularly on it is something that cannot be so easily "covered up".

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