[Vaquero]

Nazis with brown shirts and French horns....WOW!!

[Opinionated Blowhard]

These fascinating photographs from Afghanistan in the 1960s

They aren't "fascinating," they are sad. They are proof of how a civilized society can collapse and regress very quickly. Look at pictures of Iran or Lebanon from the 1960s. The difference is just as sad.

[a fool in paradise]

But we are told in the West that such garments are burqas and hijabs have always been the laws of the land for muslims. Deep rooted tradition. Can’t take it off to serve customers, play volleyball, or pose for a driver’s license photo.

[Slyfox]

Very interesting.

[Vic S]

Here's a library in Afghanistan in the 50s:

[lacrew]

I’ve seen similar photos of a girl’s school in Egypt...class photos through the years feature more and more westernized clothes...and then an abrupt change to full body coverings.

[hanamizu]

I was supposed to go to Afghanistan with the Peace Corps in 1969 (I was “deselected” before actually getting there—thank God! Everyone who went came back within a month with amoebic dysentery). We were told that the college girls in Kabul wore Western-style clothing, but usually wore sun glasses as a substitute for the veil. If you look at the pictures however, you’ll notice that men and women didn’t mingle even in pre Taliban days. You see the photographer’s wife interacting with Afghan men, but Western women didn’t count as real women rather as “men in skirts or dresses.”

[SeeSharp]

After Timothy Leary escaped from Federal prison he hid out in various countries. He was in Kabul for about a year before finally surrendering at the US Embassy there.

[Tax-chick]

I have a friend who lived in Kabul about that time. Her husband did something involving medical technology for the State Department.

There were a smattering of modern, Westernized Afghans, as well as other ethnicities, living in Kabul. However, most of the country was what it had always been: fundamentalist tribal misery.

[soycd]

islam destroys those that follow it.

[Alas Babylon!]

Rudyard Kipling wrote more than 100 years ago:

When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier _of_ the Queen!

Afghanistan has always been a Hellhole!

[Albion Wilde]

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