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2007-04-29 Afghanistan

Afghan infant deaths fall by 40K/year since Taliban ouster

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-04-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Let's up Taliban kills to 40K per year to make space for the surviving babies.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-29 03:18|| 2007-04-29 03:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes, Bless Afghanistan.

Posted by newc">newc 2007-04-29 03:43|| 2007-04-29 03:43|| Front Page Top

#3 What Zen said. Or else these will be an extra 40K per year Talibunnies themselves in 15-20 years.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-04-29 08:39|| 2007-04-29 08:39|| Front Page Top

#4 I have made an observation regarding infant mortality: high survival rates correlate with high rates of war. Prolonged peace correlates with low birth rates. Both seem like both a cause and an effect.
If I hazard a guess, war results when infant mortality falls below the long-term stability level for a population, and if war is long enough and deadly enough it leads to compensating increased birth levels. But beyond some critical catastrophic level of war populations collapse and cultures vanish (e.g. American Indians or post-1918 French.) What does this say about the conflict between Islam and the West?
Corrolary: when a society invests too many of its eggs (literally) in too few baskets it becomes extremely risk-averse, but ironically this risk-aversion actually does not lead to better long-term survivability - so how did it evolve?

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-04-29 08:55|| 2007-04-29 08:55|| Front Page Top

#5 My first thought upon seing the headline, was preempted by Zenster.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-04-29 14:19|| 2007-04-29 14:19|| Front Page Top

#6 In the America I grew up in, this news would be reason enough to continue occupation and install friendly puppet governments to facilitate the impovement of the medical conditions inside the target country. Improved education and religious missionaries would follow.
Today, however, the democrats must destroy any and all such improvements to further their anti-Bush agenda. The democrat party has indeed turned the corner. They offer nothing but criticism and opposition. They are an embarrassment. The media should be ashamed for what they have allowed to pass for leadership.
I strongly urge all Americans to take back America. Silence the MSM, close the borders, develope alternative fuel sources, and slay the dragon of corruption, the democrat party.

Posted by wxjames 2007-04-29 19:52|| 2007-04-29 19:52|| Front Page Top

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