Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Let's catch up over this with a drink sometime Ted. Musing like this, as you wisely point out, don't belong online. Marty On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:17 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > Marty Deveney offered: > Subject: Re: [Leica] : Cell Phone Parts at the Gate - Kabul NOW MAJOR > QUESTION? > > >> Hi Ted, >> >> It's also worth remembering that in parts of the USA the scenery looks >> like the third world and living standards are very poor, having >> decreased markedly even over the last 10 years, and that Afghanistan >> had sophisticated urban cultures in 3000 BC. >> >> As Diamond points out in Guns, Germs and Steel, political stability is >> the most significant determinant of standard of living and quality of >> life.<< > > Hi ?Marty > And yes some locations here in Canada we have similar situations. And > political stability in any country is the ruin of some great cultures of > the > past no question. > > If one should be so bold to ask... "What becomes of Afghanistan when NATO > and other troops leave for them to survive on their own? Sorry maybe this > isn't the place to get into this kind of discussion, so let's not get into > to it. Thankyou. > > ted > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >