Americans still believe that they will build McDonald's in Afghanistan and sell U.S. jeans on every corner, and everything will be OK," says Russian film director Andrei Kavun, standing before a poster for his movie "Kandahar." "No, it will not be OK. Afghanistan is to us what Vietnam was to the Americans. It is part of our history now".

Americans still believe that they will build McDonald's in Afghanistan and sell U.S. jeans on every corner, and everything will be OK," says Russian film director Andrei Kavun, standing before a poster for his movie "Kandahar." "No, it will not be OK. Afghanistan is to us what Vietnam was to the Americans. It is part of our history now." (Sergei L. Loiko / Los Angeles Times / February 11, 2010)

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