Saturday, April 26, 2008  Direct from Afghanistan The forgotten
war  A Daily Kos poster, profmarcus, is in Kabul and reports
what he sees.  from the time i emerged from immigration and
customs at kabul international airport and was driven in to
town, i've been struck by just how virtually nonexistent the
basic infrastructure is in the city... (i haven't been outside
of kabul, so, right now, that's my only point of reference...)
roads are shit... water and sewer is shit... the kabul river
that flows through town is nothing but a sewage canal cum
garbage dump with stone wall embankments... municipally-supplied
electric power is spotty at best, most everybody has a back-up
diesel electric power generator and most of the compounds
housing internationals are powered exclusively by generators...
landline telephone service is a joke... there are 4-5 cellphone
providers and they have done a relatively decent job of
blanketing the country with service... thank god, because,
without them, telephone communication would