The video below was taken from an S-61 helicopter flying over Afghanistan. This is the country's base terrain and is even more inhospitable than it looks. Similar ground in the West could hold a fancy ski resort but here there's an Afghan village stuck between two crags, resistant to dehabitation simply because the people who live there have always lived there and have done so for generations. When the snows come, they hunker down, by February near death from starvation, yet they do not relocate. During Operation Enduring Freedom western military forces would supply the most desperate but now?
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