A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often….

The 5000 year old highland mountain tribe Pashtun’s culture seems to be surviving and even expanding as military powers and governments come and go.

Since their culture is pre-Islamic, are they tide to radical Islam or are their tide more to their anchient beliefs, codes of conduct, and sense of seperate identity?

I have always read about the latter as being the dominant character of the noble Pashun, that and a love of guns and green chewing tobacco and a sense of humor. What’s not to like here? Seems like a traditional American Cowboy Culture to me. Let them grow their poppies and just go in a root out the Taliban from among their midst and they will continue on happy as they always have after the radical Islamists are dead and gone.

You comments on this point would be greatly appreciated as you have an extraordinarily well informed blog.

Warbucks.