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.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Greg Mortenson on Bill Moyers
Posted by Nancy Dietrich at 4:50 PM
Labels: activism, Afghanistan, Greg Mortenson
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