Evan Hafer
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Or I'm just out here to tour Afghanistan, which, I mean, I don't know why anybody would want to tour Afghanistan, but...
So like I mean โ What year was it?
What year was Alexander the Great?
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I was only 600 years off.
Well, I think up until the Soviets invaded, I mean, Afghanistan was was kind of like the crown jewel.
They referred to it as the Beirut of Central Asia because it was you had a very eclectic group of people.
And Kabul was known as like this beautiful city.
And obviously, post-occupation, the Soviets had killed, you know, hundreds of thousands of people.
And then with the buildup and the devastation of not only military occupation of the Soviets and then us coming in, you know, soon after, obviously, with...
When the mullahs took charge, it basically went completely to the other side or the extreme of the Taliban.
And then us coming in, they've had nothing but decades of war.
It's completely eviscerated any assemblance of intellectualism.
There's no infrastructure of technology or advancement.
The universities were essentially demolished.