Afghanistan in the 50s & 60s

[Griff]

We were talking about this at the salle last night. I was wondering aloud how much impact warring with the West had made (am back to reading The Siege of Vienna) when a guy mentioned two things which probably harmed them more. Good Muslims can't charge interest and instead of giving property to the oldest male heir they traditionally split things up evenly. Specific to Afghanistan, I'd say a lot of the problem was the conflict between communism and liberal democracy exacerbated by isolation.