|
I spent a few days driving around with the Afghani flag pasted to the rear window of my 1993 Tercel, pictured here. 
 Seriously, people, can you believe this piece of crap I have to drive around? Click on some more ad banners, for God's sake! Anyway, back to the national flag of Afghanistan, which, I have learned, changes monthly. Note the Arabic script in gold, which I had someone translate for me. It reads, "Italy just called, and they want their colors back."  See? We're not so different. We've got the "stars 'n' stripes," they've got the "stripes 'n' that gold horseshoe shaped thing with the bendy swords on the bottom and the archway with the flags hanging off the sides lovingly accompanied by some random squiggles." I drove around all day long with the flag on my rear window, and despite a few strange looks from my neighbors as I took these pictures, I got no reaction whatsoever. I thought it would help if I added some music, so during my lunch hour, I drove around Newton, a ritzy suburb of Boston, blaring the one CD of non-American music that I own. The suburbians looked at me, annoyed, probably thinking I was rooting for some obscure country in the World Cup. Part of the problem, I think, is that Afghanistan is our ally, now that we've replaced their government with a puppet leader who will kowtow to the United States. It's the old Afghanistan, the evil Afghanistan, that we don't like. So I decided to up the ante by adding an additional sign on my car window: 
 Then I waited for the shit to hit the fan. I didn't have to wait long. | ||||||||||
|
