The Afghanistan seldom seen - Prateep Cahterjee

Here is an interesting look at Afghanistan we do not read about. The US is spending over 36 billion a year in Afgahnistan. If that money is spent wisely the results culd be dramatically different ~~t


VIDEO: Cameraman Ronald Nobu Sakamoto put together three videos from footage taken in Afghanistan while traveling with Pratap Chatterjee just after the American invasion in 2002 and again in November 2008. Click here.

Want a billion dollars in development aid? If you happen to live in Afghanistan, the two quickest ways to attract attention and aid from the United States authorities are: Taliban attacks or a flourishing opium trade. For those with neither, the future could be bleak. In November 2008, during the US presidential elections, I traveled around Afghanistan asking people what they wanted from the United States. From Mazar-i-Sharif in the north to Bamiyan in central Afghanistan to the capital city of Kabul, I came away with three very different pictures of the country.