The West seems to have lost its orientation in the Hindu Kush – that “graveyard of empires,” as it was called after the British disaster in January 1842, when only one man survived an expedition 16,000. What, many people are asking, is NATO really fighting for in Afghanistan?
西方国家似乎在兴都库什山区迷失了方向——1842年1月，第一次英阿战争期间，一支1万6千人的英国远征军在此遭阿富汗军袭击，仅一人生还，这一带由此得名“帝国的坟墓”。许多人质疑，北约在阿富汗，究竟为什么而战？