LONG AND
WINDING ROADS
the middle of the town, the base was
nevertheless an alien world from whatever went on in Lashkar Gah. There
were lad mags for sale at the military
PX, movie nights on Thursdays, three
meals a day, and the occasional Heineken or two (as a British base, beer was
not banned like it is on U.S. bases).
One of the consequences of living in
such circumstances was that it became
virtually impossible to measure the long-
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term effects of development projects.
State Department and other officials
there insisted that they left the base as
much as they needed to, but the trips
tended to be rigidly planned and heavily a rmed. In the parking bay, a row of
white armored vehicles used by civilians
were pockmarked, and most of the thickpaned windows were cracked — the result of rocks being chucked at them, I
was assured, not bullets. It was not un-
The Container
Conundrum
Getting all of our military supplies out of
Afghanistan will require about 100,000 shipping containers, according to a July report by
Foreign Affairs. Here are some numbers to give
you an idea of just how massive this move will be.
AP PHOTO/DAVE MARTIN
*DATA REFLECTS METRICS AROUND 100,000 CONTAINERS, ASSUMING
A TWENTY-FOOT EQUIVALENT UNIT CAPACITY FOR EACH.
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