Afghanistan

by Caroline on Crack, via flickr

Dear America: Moderate Muslims Exist

By Murwarid Abdiani | October 22, 2012

And they love bacon, booze, and cookies and cream.

Killing the Buddha

Very Special Forces

By Jeff Sharlet | May 20, 2009

American political journalists tends to pooh-pooh generals on the way out and coo over them on the way in, much the same way business journalists persuade themselves that one Harvard…

Some taller than the Statue of Liberty, stone Buddhas have stood watch over the Bamiyan Valley for over 1500 years.

Taliban Kills Buddha

By Peter Manseau | March 7, 2001

Islam takes on Buddhism in Afghanistan. A nervous art world attempts to referee. Buddha laughs.