! ! Afghanistan

He said, that Allah had cursed thrice Afghanistan; cursed it with those curses, which all evil men see as their life’s blessings: first, He gave them the opium poppy: so that if they chose, an easy wealth would kill their fellow men all round the world with its addiction; which they themselves could claim was not at all their fault.. and easy wealth would give them time for Allah’s second curse: the manly thrill of fighting and of killing; to pursue which, one must invent an enemy; then, an enemy invented, enemy he must become; and so, the whole world now an enemy.. the third and the most dreadful curse cannot be named or be described.. secret; awful; deadly; all-consuming: hidden in the hearts of holy hypocrites.