Wardak was flying for the other side, the Russian-backed communist government of Afghanistan. Or so it appeared. Wardak hated the communists so much that one day in 1989 he jumped into his fighter jet and defected, landing in Pakistan. Before long, he came to America. He desperately wants to help his country, which lies shell-shocked from years of war.
Children play in former battlefields that have yet to be de-mined.
The economy has collapsed and inflation runs rampant. And Under Secretary Of State Thomas Pickering doesn't see the conditions in Afhganistan getting any better. But this Washington cab driver thinks Washington has got it wrong. Wardak believes so strongly that the Taliban has begun to repair Afghanistan that he's willing to defend its skies. He says he can draw a distinction between being an American and being an Afghan.