I’m late into this, but please help. Why, why, oh why is the arse end of the world (Afghanistan, Pakistan) of even the remotest interest to us?

I don’t for a second believe that, given the ring-fencing re airline travel, scanning shipping containers, following up funding, we should have any undue concerns about what issues from their arses.

Let them self destruct. They want it. The excruciating embarassment of being the only civilisation to discover reading and writing, and then blow it, would kill me too.

I just don’t get it. Tell me why I should care about Afghanistan.

ADE