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West leaves a legacy in Kabul
[BangkokPost] While the Taliban have erased most obvious vestiges of the US nation-building effort in Afghanistan, the cultural legacy of two decades of American occupation has been harder to stamp outThere's a glimmer of the old Kabul hiding in the new one -- if you know where to look. It's there in the crowded snooker halls where young men in jeans hover around velvet tables and yell "nice shot" in English. It lives on in the dark rooms of video game dens where teenage boys lounge on couches playing Call of Duty and Fifa, posters of famous footballers plastered on the walls. Posted by: trailing wife 2023-07-17 |
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