Friday, January 15, 2010

Greg Mortenson on Bill Moyers

Here's a clip of Greg Mortenson talking to Bill Moyers on building a girls' school in Mullah Omar's village and recent troop deployment to Afghanistan. I don't think I've ever seen him in a suit and not in traditional Pakistani dress. He must have felt awkward as hell.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/15/greg-mortenson-on-bill-mo_n_425339.html

(Well, the link works on my Facebook page. Find me there.)

You can even tell how painfully shy he is--like it hurts to talk. It would be great to see him really getting into a lively discussion in one of the jirgas (councils of elders) deep in Afghanistan, drinking tea and swapping stories in the Dari (or Pashto, etc.) language.

No comments: