Tom’s War Dog of the Week: A pup watching over Bamiyan, Afghanistan
Rebecca appears to be on strike, so Tom’s war dog of the week (until we can get Rebecca to re-surface) is a dog in Bamiyan, one of my favorite towns in Afghanistan. When I ran my junior class trip there in 1970 we picnicked atop the flat head of one of the Buddha statues.
Rebecca appears to be on strike, so Tom's war dog of the week (until we can get Rebecca to re-surface) is a dog in Bamiyan, one of my favorite towns in Afghanistan. When I ran my junior class trip there in 1970 we picnicked atop the flat head of one of the Buddha statues.
Rebecca appears to be on strike, so Tom’s war dog of the week (until we can get Rebecca to re-surface) is a dog in Bamiyan, one of my favorite towns in Afghanistan. When I ran my junior class trip there in 1970 we picnicked atop the flat head of one of the Buddha statues.
Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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