Paghman Gardens

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1967 & 2007	Bill Podlich & Jon Nyswonger

A before and after picture of Paghman Gardens taken 40 years apart, reflecting the results of 20 years of war.

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Joe Lasker		31-Dec-2009 16:07
Guest, US and NATO didn't enter Afghanistan until 2001, after the attack on US soil by Al-Qaeda based in Afghanistan and protected by the Taliban, who took over most of the country at the end of the civil war.

Yogi		27-Dec-2009 12:35
"So you mean to say there were blondes and brunettes in Afghanistan, and Afghanis invaded took away the land from the blondes and brunettes, drank all their water? ate all the grass and broke the bridge. Damn those Afghanis." They look like tourists to me.

Guest		27-Dec-2009 09:03
Clayton Esterson, did you mean: Afghanistan civil war 1978-1989 = 11 years US invasion 1992-2001 = 9 years ?

Guest		27-Dec-2009 03:27
So you mean to say there were blondes and brunettes in Afghanistan, and Afghanis invaded took away the land from the blondes and brunettes, drank all their water? ate all the grass and broke the bridge. Damn those Afghanis.

Guest		27-Dec-2009 02:38
The trees are the most intense part of the change in my opinion.

Oriakhil		06-Mar-2009 22:13
Thank you very much for posting these pictures, which are actually considered as treasures. Paghman, that I saw it, is very different than it is in these beautiful and amazing classic photos. I am glad that at least my birth-place had a living and breathing era.

Clayton Esterson		25-Jul-2008 05:22
Soviet invasion 1978-1989 = 11 years Afghanistan civil war 1992-2001 = 9 years

albert		24-Jul-2008 10:17
2007-1967=40 not 20...