Today, almost three generations of Afghans have lived from birth to adulthood without having known stability and peace. And, as a visiting American scholar/diplomat recently told me in a confidential conversation: “In the US, too, at least a generation of our children, from birth till the age of 15, have seen their country almost continuously at war.”
上一次类似的不确定时期催生了塔利班在巴基斯坦的成立。塔利班不断地干扰着阿富汗（和巴基斯坦）本来就十分脆弱的社会秩序。如今，近三代阿富汗人在成长过程中不知稳定与和平为何物。而一味访问阿富汗的学者/外交官最近对一次秘密对话告诉我：“在美国，至少我们的下一代从出生到15岁，他们的祖国一直在打仗。”