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Afghanistan news and business report, number 2
Good news and bad. My friend Al, about whom I recently wrote and had pictures from Afghanistan, was home (Visalia) for health check-ups (not much in the way of health in Kabul), and we were able to meet up for lunch in Bako. when he and his wife Nana were on their way to LAX for flights back to mid-Asia. He is doing OK, but his wife Nana who is a physician, is fighting the retirement blues. She lives in the country Georgia, while Al works in Afghanistan. I asked him about the fields of marijuana and he confirms that they indeed grow there in abundance, along with the opium. It seems in about 1220 A.D. a guy named Ghengis Khan passed their way, and while hunkered in a town named Ghanj, decreed that they grow the weed for his pleasure, and the rest is history. Hence the name Ganja. (Please don't pick on me for my history. It is close enough for this blog.) Anyway, the average family over there has 1/2 acre to farm and on this they must support their family. Dope and Ope(opium) are way the easiest to grow and transport. Al's contract in Afghanistan is up in May, but if he lives long enough, he may secure another assignment in Iran. The people over there really need a way to conduct their lives on their own. I only hope and pray Al and Nana survive.
By the way, I commented on the nice water in the streams and wondered if there was any fly-fishing. He said there is but only by those who can hire armed guards to watch their backs. Fun. 3 comments from 3 users
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posted by
ViolinPro
on Jan 18, 2008 at 02:27 AM
Hi Pops, (yes, it's late ... taught hard and late, trash day, been doing some housework ... *shock* ... <g>) Wish Uncle Al could find work in safer place and closer to home too. And, 'scuse the politics ... but he could do just as much to help here as he does there ... and he should be paid just as much to do so ... and this would be without him having to worry about maniac radicals strapping themselves up to some homemade bombs to stop him ... Well ... mostly, we hope, anyway ... Sigh ... Love and sending prayers, K posted by
twinkie
on Jan 18, 2008 at 12:44 PM
that last comment made me giggle. sorry, I know, bad. but it did because I pictured a bunch of armed service people guarding a dude with big water proof boots and a fishing pole. Sending your friend positive thoughts and energy and hoping he returns safely SOON! posted by
Grampsdon
on Jan 18, 2008 at 06:35 PM
To Karin, no the pay over there is enormous, and tax free. His kids need to go to college. Sister, thanks, and he really needs to keep safe. Friends of over 40 years are hard to come by. I hope he will keep up our chatter, and send pictures. And to you Twinkie, I think you are right, except the boots are bullet proof, not water proof. Thanks to you all. Al is a special person to me and my girls. And yes, America needs him too. Maybe one day we can talk about his years in Venezuela. And Visalia. God bless.
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