This reads as an absurdist take on travel, or one assuming the average American is blithely walking back and forth across the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. After

This reads as an absurdist take on travel, or one assuming the average American is blithely walking back and forth across the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. After extensive travel in many “non-Western” countries, I have essentially never felt like a target, or that I was in danger (except of perhaps being charged more than a local), and suggesting Americans avoid those countries reads, to me, as an absolutely mad-with-fear take on the world.