How did the price of mangos in Kabul influence anti-Taliban operations in the eastern part of the country?
They didn’t.
“…we certainly need statistical investigations, comparative analyses, historical studies and abstract deductive reasoning as well.”
What a great pity, because…
“The reason for that scarcity is the wide acceptance dogma that nothing is worth knowing that cannot be counted, and that any information which is tabulated becomes thereby scientific – surely one of the grossest superstitions of our time, whose vogue can only stem from the fact that it enables a large number of people to make a living by indulging easy pseudo-science.”
Stanislav Andreski, Social Sciences as Sorcery
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Carrying the Gun 