I could understand how millennia of conquerors had been seduced. Reputed for its harshness, the small, deeply impoverished country-lodged between Iran and Pakistan, just below old Soviet Central Asia-is also physically stunning. As I peered down from a rattling jet during a recent trip in late fall, the dawn light of a cloudless morning revealed an endless succession of dusty, reddish brown mountain peaks and valleys. Near the end of the overnight flight from Moscow to Kabul on Afghanistan’s Ariana Airlines, the sun rises over that beautiful, battered country. 1 Invasion Considered: A Short, Victorious War
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