Afghanistan has not always been the way it is now. Once the women here made a career in medicine, went to the movies and universities in Kabul. Factories in the suburbs produce fabrics and other products. Was law and order, and the government could implement major infrastructure projects, such as construction of hydroelectric power plants and roads, though not without outside help. Common people had hope for the future, that education opens up new possibilities. All of this was destroyed by thirty years of war.