Lushington D. Brady: Is Their Savagery Really as Good as Our Civilisation?

Liberal democracy is a hard-learned process

For a while during the international occupation, Afghanistan hosted one of the most dangerous roads in the world. Not because of IEDs, but because American engineers spent billions building spanking new highways across the graveyard of empires. Afghanistan had just 80 kilometres of paved road in 2001; five years later, it had over 16,000 kilometres.