Afghanistan

[gvidas]

Also from the "written-beautifully-but-(not-that-it's-unique-or-anything)-possibly-of-a-specific-viewpoint" dept., have any of you been reading In These Deserts: War Stories From Afghanistan?

I always appreciate being reminded how many different ways there are to live in any given place. This from the most recent --

There was no flight the next day, or the day after that. It was all happening like the air coordinator said. I called the two Afghan National Police officers on my Roshan phone and told them to be at the gate at 8 a.m. the next day. We were speaking in Pashto, and when I hung up, one of the soldiers asked me, “God damn, sir! How many times you been deployed?” I told him this was my first, but that I had gone native.

A female lieutenant spoke from an office behind me: “That was you? I thought one of them had gotten in here.”