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The Afghans Have a Proverb for It

The Afghans Have a Proverb for It

The 19th cen­tu­ry strug­gle for dom­i­nance in Afghanistan was dubbed “The Great Game’.
The 21st cen­tu­ry ver­sion is look­ing increas­ing­ly like ‘The Grotesque Game’;  summed up neat­ly by an Afghan proverb: “While the butch­ers were argu­ing, the cow dropped dead.”Read the rest