{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"Fear is the real enemy","author_name":"Robert Maier","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article1895.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article1895.html'\u003EFear is the real enemy\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen I was in Kabul, I walked the streets freely, even as an obvious westerner.  I stopped and chatted with shopkeepers, took photos of families, bought things, sampled foods, and was always greeted graciously with curiosity and openness.  This was the opposite I had expected from the portrait painted by the U.S. State Department\u2019s  dire warnings against traveling to Afghanistan, and coverage only of bombings and other violence by big media. \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\nThe following commentary tells the story of an (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}