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Originally posted by skywalker:
I believe the story rings true. Course maybe I'm very gullible!
Mark
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Mark, I don't believe it's a question of true/false. I think it's more a question of language and culture. If I do not know what a skyscraper is, I cannot give you a word for it. If I must translate it I may use the first word that comes anywhere close, in this case "castle".
I don't mean to say that the Afghani people are all fully aware of world politics and news, but that they may be more aware than that one incident and translation indicate. Not having sophisticated plumbing and grocery chains does NOT mean that they are backwards intellectually and I think it would be a bad thing to assume that from a short interpreted interview .
Cloudy
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