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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
At the sprawling Bush market deep within Afghanistan's capital, the American war is for sale. The maze of some 500 interconnected stores, named for the US president who invaded in 2001, is a chaotic emporium brimming with goods carted in by truck to supply NATO troops. For more than one decade, thousand of vehicles have crossed the border with Pakistan each month, barring food and supplies that are in turn pilfered, repurposed with price tags and put on display under the baking sun: Pop-Tars, Maxwell house coffee canisters and squeeze bottles of maple syrups alongside military fatigues, body armor night vision goggles GPS devices and even some automatic rifles.
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