Ghor is Not the Manhattan of Central Asia

 Yesterday was Ghor, where we have a small team with the Lithuanians at their PRT in the capital "city" of Chagcharan.  Ghor is probably the most isolated part of Afghanistan, so isolated that even the insurgents don't often go there.  It doesn't have mines, trees, or much vegetation at all, though one of the people there was telling me that the soil is in fact quite fertile, if only there was water.  There's a book called "The Places In Between" that describes Ghor as "one of the only places in the classical world not to be names or recognized by either the Persians or the Greeks."  It is defined by tribal conflicts, and when we asked what tends to cause the tribal conflicts, the answer was, "Someone steals a sheep, and then the tribe retaliates by kidnapping a person."  I didn't see any sheep, probably because they had all been stolen, but I did see one herder driving a group of maybe six devilish-looking goats.  I also saw of flock of four turkeys.