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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Younger posters dont realise it but there was a time back in the 60's and 70's when Lebanon and Iran were basically western countries while the rest of the middle east were rapidly moving that way, you could take a bus from London to India through Syria, Iraq, Iran Afghanistan with no issues other than a tendency to start wearing a smelly afghan coat.
The US's short-sighted support of Saudi Arabia has been in its own way as stupid a move as Russia's invasion of Ukraine
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I was reading about how Afghanistan used to be a place hippies would flock to. Hard to imagine that now.