Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report
Jim Dixon
jdd at dixons.org
Fri Nov 26 08:07:59 PST 2004
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Tyler Durden wrote:
> When the Taliban came in to power, they seemed to offer some stability,
> albeit at a price. And I'd bet a lot of people in the shoes of the Afghanis
> would have been willing to pay that price.
An afghani is a unit of currency, worth much less than a penny.
The people who live there are Afghans or Afghanistanis or just Afs.
I know it's a trivial point, but for those of us who have actually
spent some time there -- and to the Afghans, of course -- it grates.
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