http://www.rcnzonline.com/fnf/a122.htm
The U.S. base in Grafenwoehr is currently situated where the training camp for the infamous Flossenburg Concentration Camps nearby in WWII. The Grafenwoehr Base is where special commandos were trained to abuse, control and kill detainees during the last five years of the Nazi Reich.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truppen%C3%BCbungsplatz_Grafenw%C3%B6hr
http://www.thirdreichruins.com/flossenburg.htm
Similarly, wherever U.S. troops are stationed in Afghanistan, they will land in the footprints or at ex-military bases of Taliban forces, Northern Front forces, Soviet Occupiers or other local or global imperialists, from Genghis Kahn to the British forces of the 19th centuries have fought their wars and left their genocidal marks. It is no accident of history that this very week, the most popular political magazine in Germany--DER SPIEGEL's--cover story is called the "Cemetery of Empires" and the title refers, of course, to Afghanistan.
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,ausg-4655,00.html
The subtitle for the "CEMETERY OF EMPIRES" is "Afghanistan: 200 Year War".
The aim of that headline article is to attempts to explain why the Great Powers always collapse in the Hindu Kush highlands. In contrast, Hosseini's novel, THE KITE RUNNER, ends more optimistically because, like Hosseini's own life, the main protagonist, Amir, has become a bit Americanized and is hopeful in the year 2002 that 30 years of war in Afghanistan can be recovered from--"albeit slowly" [Amir recognizes this].
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