What a Half-Century of Reprimitivization Looks Like

At Ricochet, Peter Robinson awards “The Sentence of the Week” to John Hinderaker of Power Line:

Over on Powerline, John Hinderaker has decided that it’s time to get out of Afghanistan.  (As everyone who has listened to the most recent Ricochet podcast knows, John is in agreement here with Col. Bing West, author of The Wrong War.)  Afghanistan, John argues, is of little strategic importance, backward in a way we can scarcely imagine, and not even remotely interested in joining the modern world.

Here’s John, summing it up:

They are a tribal society run by pederasts whose main industry is growing poppies.

Who would have predicted that outcome in the mid-1950s, based on these images?