and another thing:
3: Afghans play Buzkashi in Kabul. Buzkashi, or "goat dragging", is played with two teams of horsemen competing to throw a decapitated goat into a scoring circle.
having trouble visualizing? here's a photo.
are you familiar with the expression 'WTF!?'
this is what Ali's neighbors do for fun?
does the winner win the goat?
what do they do w/ its head? play soccer?
when i am vastly wealthy, i will buy a billion soccer balls & drop them from airplanes in the middle east. then maybe those guys would stop decapitating goats & bombing each other.
x-posted to Ali, who tells me stories of his impoverished soccer-obsessed youth, in which he kicked around anything that would move b/c he didn't have a proper soccer ball. ...or even shoes.
but seriously, given current events, this um, report seems a bit propagandesque. dehumanizing the enemy by emphasizing the grotesque, bizarre, distasteful. probably this game of buzkashi is rarely played & only in an isolated region- & perhaps only this once, staged as a prank photo opp. it just sounds like something Ali would make up as a joke just to see if i would believe it.
having trouble visualizing? here's a photo.
are you familiar with the expression 'WTF!?'
this is what Ali's neighbors do for fun?
does the winner win the goat?
what do they do w/ its head? play soccer?
when i am vastly wealthy, i will buy a billion soccer balls & drop them from airplanes in the middle east. then maybe those guys would stop decapitating goats & bombing each other.
x-posted to Ali, who tells me stories of his impoverished soccer-obsessed youth, in which he kicked around anything that would move b/c he didn't have a proper soccer ball. ...or even shoes.
but seriously, given current events, this um, report seems a bit propagandesque. dehumanizing the enemy by emphasizing the grotesque, bizarre, distasteful. probably this game of buzkashi is rarely played & only in an isolated region- & perhaps only this once, staged as a prank photo opp. it just sounds like something Ali would make up as a joke just to see if i would believe it.