Monday, August 23, 2010

P.J. O'Rourke on Afghanistan

O'Rourke's newest piece manages to visit Afghanistan and still crack a few jokes along the way.  Actually, his opening is as insightful as it is funny:
If you spend 72 hours in a place you’ve never been, talking to people whose language you don’t speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don’t understand, and you come back as the world’s biggest know-it-all, you’re a reporter.

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