The security of some and the insecurity of others, our modernity and their tradition are parts of a simultaneous., linked, fragmented world … the fragmenting countries show the integrating ones the dark side of their common present. ‘If you do not like the image in the mirror,’ says an old Persian poem, ‘do not break the mirror, break your face.’
Barnett Rubin, on the post-Cold War world
In The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: Afghanistan, Mirror of the World (1995)
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