I expected to see many soldiers and military people

there are a lot of military people in the streets, in the evenings almost on every street there are Asgars (Afghan police). Also there are a lot of semi police places in front of every guest house, UN buildings, or NGO’s people houses, etc. Almost every where there is a security guy keeping eye on something. There were a distinct difference between some of the security guys, for example in front of the UN guesthouse, or embassies some had a real gun or Kalashnikov. While others had a sort of gun which had a knife on top of it, like the one you see in World war one movies. I thought they are remained from the time of British colonizing new lands!
Surprisingly I didn’t see that much of foreigner soldiers, I saw some Turkish military cars. They were passing trough city and I even saw one Turkish soldier was chatting with an Afghan soldier. I saw American with their big guns, once or twice (they really look like Hollywood movies). Most disturbing was to see some had their guns towards people, and the fingers on trigger! I thought this was odd, I could feel the fear their appearance imposes. Interestingly when I talked about this seen with some Afghans they told me; “one of the way you would know if the soldier is American or not is from the way he holds his gun, if it is towards people is American! The European do not do that!” I thought what a witches circle, you take your gun towards people, they hate you, they want to kick you out, they blow themselves up, you get killed, you get scared, you point your gun more straight to protect yourself, and welcome to the war, or call it freeing people! Bringing democracy….



"Asgars, near the bazaar"



"A military car gut stuck in traffic and wanted to push every body away!"



"ISAF cars, in the street (It was not allowed to make a photo from the military sites, so I could just make photo in the road!) "