The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.
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Nationality: American Type: Journalist Born: June 23, 1952 |
That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.
Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

