June 19, 2009

All You Need to Know About the New & Improved US/Afghanistan Relationship

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"Yosouf, you Afghanis have some pretty subtle ways of getting your smack out of the country. I just would have stuffed it in the diplomatic pouch myself."

"That's the trouble with you Americans, Karl. You take no joy in the romance of smuggling. Pass the bong."

Oh, this is going to end well. U.S. ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry, left, and Afghan Minister of Urban Development Mohammad Yosouf Pashtun "rode in a paddle boat on the Band-e-Amir Lake in Bamiyan Province, Afghanistan, Thursday. In April, Afghanistan declared Band-e-Amir as its first conservation area."

The Sierra Club was well pleased with this vital progress.

Posted by Vanderleun at June 19, 2009 1:56 PM
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