First Annual Kabul, Afghanistan Air Show!

First Annual Kabul Air Show Scheduled
(AP) Kabul, Afghanistan
17:52GMT - Sept. 20, 2001
Citizens of Afghanistan are reportedly looking forward with great
anticipation to reports of an international air show to be held in the skies

over their nation.
An unnamed official informed us that "Now the rest of the world will look
upon our beloved city with great honor just as they do Farnborough, England
and Paris, France", referring to the sites of two other famous international

air shows.
The exact date and time of the upcoming Kabul International Air Show has not

yet been announced. It is believed that event organizers feel that such an
announcement would detract from the fun of the celebration by, "spoiling the

surprise".
Unlike most air shows the Kabul Air Show will feature almost no static
ground displays but will have an unusually high number of aerial
demonstrations and fly-bys. "We are most pleased by this feature of our air
show. Instead of a lot of different kinds of airplanes just sitting around
on the tarmac, the aircraft attending our show will actually be up in the
air demonstrating what they do best!" we were told.
Participation will probably be heaviest by aircraft of the United States Air

Force and Marine Corps. Including appearances by F-15's, F-16's, A-10's,
B-52's and Apache helicopters. It is rumored that opening ceremonies will
feature a Tomahawk cruise missile fireworks display. A few B-1, B-2's, and
F-117A's may also help out in some unseen capacity.
Several other counties have expressed an interest in sending
representatives. These include all nineteen nations in the NATO alliance as
well as Australia. The excitement generated for this gala event has even
prompted the Israeli Air Force to apply for participation.
Of course, no one is more excited than the Afghan people themselves. Great
numbers of them are in the streets of Kabul looking constantly heavenward in

gratitude for the historic event, which will soon take place in their skies.

It has been observed that some are so concerned about missing the show that
even as they bow to the East they keep snatching worried glances towards the

West. Thousands, in fact, have been seen leaving the city and fleeing to the

mountains carrying food and blankets - obviously anxious to get a good
vantage point for the air show, and to make a picnic of it.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
—Edmund Burke

Hey TR,

Till I met you I thought I had a warped sense of humour. That was about as funny as the television pictures of that poor Iraqi sod who sufferd the misforture of riding his Honda 250 accross a Bagdad bridge as a yankee cruise missile raced in. Call it fate, call it callateral damage, put it in the Googenhome museum and call it "terror with right hand throttle", being blown to smithereens by and ignorant* unseen enemy is not a nice way to go and a cowards way to fight. For me the air force (and long range naval bombing) has always been the most cowardly of military solutions. Mind you, men volunteering to face the Afghans would be brave men indeed.

Am I missing something here? Is the purpose of this post humour? unclebruce (perhaps trying too hard to understand TR?)

(In all fairness my knowledge of Afghan fighting men is only through what I've read and my only personal experience with Afghans was in outback SA nearly 40 years ago - meeting the last of the Afghan camel drivers they fed us delicious steak which we later found out to be from a Camel which died of 'unknown causes' .. an ailment I've since found common to asian cooking)

*do any of us know the life story of that poor bastard?

First Annual Kabul, Afghanistan Air Show!

TR

unclebruce

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