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The Afghans Will Fight
The Afghans Will Fight
The Afghans will fight. It is their métier.
Shere Mohamet has a story that illustrates the Afghan spirit.
"When I came home to my house in Kabul from the council that decided on the last war,
my wife and my daughter had my pistols and my sword and all my kit laid out for me.
" 'What is this?' I said
" 'Your things for the war. There is going to be a war, is there not?'
" 'Yes. But I am the minister of war. I do not go to this war. The minister of war does not go to the war itself.'
"My wife shook her head. 'I do not understand it,' she said very haughtily.
'If you are the minister of war who cannot go to war, you must resign. That is all.
We would be disgraced if you did not go.'"
That is the spirit the Kemalists trained, and armed by the Russians
it makes another Eastern problem that does not look easy of solution.
- Ernest Hemmingway
The Toronto Star
October 31, 1922
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