The Road From Afghanistan

The Road from AfghanistanWhen I Mentioned the word bullshit, the Soviet translator—a beautiful young woman from Moscow University—blinked her big eyes and said, "What is this 'bool-sheet'? It is a rude word?"Our group of American veterans was trying to teach some useful new vocabulary to the Afghantsi—veterans of the brutal Soviet invasion of Afghanistan—but the translators weren't catching on. After many tries and much theatrical body language, we finally defined it as something like...