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Subject: [Leica] : Cell Phone Parts at the Gate - Kabul NOW MAJOR QUESTION?
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:35:31 +1030
References: <C5D3C1B6-6432-4C0C-9218-49338365F731@mac.com> <552366D8-456A-42BA-A2FC-DD8D9B2C3C2F@frozenlight.eu> <3DDD2B209A07426DB8528794B959B89D@syneticfeba505> <AANLkTimA8jHs+bP__EPNPM6nqDXZ_ihf0Us2MPD5V=Uo@mail.gmail.com> <E170FD6D-9AB5-433E-8751-8896D252A1E1@mac.com> <AANLkTik84DHtx05_Eh6C55=wM4huiCJdQ67r4f2RpZ_C@mail.gmail.com> <8AF4F9FE97CC44B9B3925AC2F9ECBFA4@syneticfeba505>

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
>
>
>
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