What Lyrical Prose!
Where's the music sheet that goes with this?
"Model districts" smells lots like the "strategic hamlets" that were, um, shall we call them "gated communities for Viet Cong sympathizers"?
At any event, Maj. Khan is a good pupil and sure to graduate with high marks from the Leavenworth staff college.
I feel sorry for anyone serving there: I understand that anyone taken prisoner gets his eyes gouged out, jinglebells cut off and then skinned alive before being left out to dry. I leave you to imagine what that does to a man's enthusiasm to bring democracy, freedom, justice and KFC to a landscape of mountainfolk who have their own definition of freedom.
Muslim hospitality is among the finest, most refined and considerate in the world but they just this thing about gatecrashers.