The Lost Buddhas of Bamiyan: picking up the pieces in Afghanistan.(Letter From The Hindu Kush.)

From: Harper's Magazine | Date: March 1, 2005| Author: Power, Matthew | Copyright information

Near sundown, atop TV Hill in Kabul, I am surrounded by a squabbling group of children, bright-eyed, rotten-toothed, dressed in ragged salwars with hands out, crying: Howdy! Howdy! Howdy! I root through my pockets and find nothing but a handful of American coins, pennies and nickels, and lint, and I hold them up and point at Lincoln and Jefferson and FDR and say, America, and they echo, Merik, Merik, and push each other, laughing and grabbing for the unspendable coins. Their tiny h...

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