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The Lessons Of Afghanistan — William Dalrymple

The Joe Walker Podcast

CHAPTER

The Popozai and Gilzai Divide

The Duranis and the Popozai are landlords, have money, have resources. The Gilzai were the dispossessed, they were the day laborers,. They were sitting in the villages watching people pass in flashcars or big land cruisers. But you can almost say this in Marxist rather than religious terms. It's a potent mixture of tribal factors whereby the rulers are a different tribe from you. And it's a social difference in that the rulers are richer than you and your poor.

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