Within hours, the polls will open for the 2010 Afghan Parliamentary elections I supported the Afghan National Army and Police forces during the 2009 Afghan Presidential election and was relieved when the parliamentary elections (originally scheduled for May) were postponed. So with apologies to Clint Eastwood, here’s my take on the upcoming elections… The good: [...]
Archive for September, 2010
Afghan elections: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Posted in Reasonably balanced, tagged Afghanistan, ANA, ANP, Coalition, elections, insurgency, NATO, women on 17 Sep 2010 | 2 Comments »
Ramadan in Afghanistan
Posted in Reasonably balanced, tagged Afghanistan, holidays, Ramadan, Ramazan on 12 Sep 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ramadan — known in Afghanistan as Ramazan — was a bummer, mostly because I’d really grown to love Afghan food. When meeting with Afghans, we ALWAYS had chai, and usually also had a tray with tidbits like yellow raisins, dried yellow peas, almonds, pistachios, and rock candy crystals. Often we shared more exotic tidbits too…strange [...]
Leaving Afghanistan
Posted in Reasonably balanced, tagged Afghanistan, Kabul on 1 Sep 2010 | 1 Comment »
I left Afghanistan late on 22 April, returning to Okinawa for a brief period, then moving to Texas and a new assignment. My last image of Kabul was a small group of kids with big smiles…the girls were waving and the boys were giving us the “thumbs up.” I like to think they believed things [...]
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