"The history of Afghanistan is one of receiving the arts of others, and then turning them into our own way of expression," says Massoudi.

马苏迪说：“阿富汗的历史是一部接受他人的艺术、然后将它们转变为我们自己的表现方式的历史。”

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Girls' enrollment skyrocketed from 839,000 to more than 2.2 million, and boys' from 2.6 million to 3.9 million-the highest enrollment in the history of Afghanistan.

女童的入学人数从839,000猛增到超过220万，男童的入学人数从260万增加到390万—入学人数达到了阿富汗历史上的最高水平。

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Afghanistan is now the longest war in U.S. history. That metric alone seems to validate the notion that the United States had no real strategy or sense of what it was getting into.

阿富汗是美国历史上插手的最长战争，似乎验证了美国对其干涉的国家并没有实际战略和方案。

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Secretary Clinton says Afghanistan is at a critical moment in its history on the eve of the inauguration of President Hamid Karzai's second term.

VOA: standard.2009.11.18

That process might take weeks. Billed as only the second free election for President in Afghanistan's history, the fraud allegations are threatening the legitimacy of the process.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

Myanmar may repeat the history of Afghanistan, where opium production was put to a complete stop by the Taliban only to explode again after the fall of the regime.

ECONOMIST: Myanmar

Since August, he has been studying the history of Afghanistan as well as the military operations since the war began in 2001, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.

CNN: US Marine general takes over NATO forces in Afghanistan

Given the past history of intense rivalries in Afghanistan, it is a big question, of course, whether even a Loya Jirga could find a consensus.

BBC: Afghans