“Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
- Lord John Dalberg-Acton (1834–1902), British historian, politician and writer
In 1888, British writer Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936; Nobel Prize for Literature, 1907) published a novella entitled THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING. The story was later (1975) turned into a film starring actors Michael Caine and Sean Connery.
For the two men whose goal was to become kings of Kafiristan (land of infidels; later Nooristan — literally, land of light) in the northeast part of Afghanistan, things…
