Via Burn Bag:
“After nearly 14 years, $1 trillion, and more than 2,300 lives, the security situation in Kabul is such that the Embassy is using helicopters to transport its staff the 2.2 mile distance to the international airport.”
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Times have changed. Even in the depths of the Soviet occupation in the 1980s, diplomats could make the drive to Kabul airport in relative safety.