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Old 12th November 2016, 01:03 AM   #31
Jim McDougall
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“I was unable to show my friendship publicly, because my people were ignorant and fanatical. If I showed any inclination toward the English, my people would call me an infidel for joining hands with infidels.”*

* quote attributed to Abdur Rahman, the Emir of Afghanistan who made peace with the British at the end of the second Anglo-Afghan war. Reported in “the Great Game” by Peter Hopkirk
Well cited. My son; son in law and grandson all served in Afghanistan.
It seems things there have always been so.
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