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2017-06-24 Afghanistan

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-06-24 06:08|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 Our involvement in Afghanistan is untenable because the country is untenable. No matter what is done, Afghanistan will fail because of its ~~galloping population growth.~~ culture.

FIFY

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-06-24 07:40|| 2017-06-24 07:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Culture is in a petri dish or culturing tube. Afghanistan is black mold on the basement wall...

Posted by M. Murcek 2017-06-24 09:30|| 2017-06-24 09:30|| Front Page Top

#3 According to the UN, conflicts and weather-related shocks are the main drivers of food insecurity.

There's that climate change thingee again that the UN is pushing.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-06-24 10:22|| 2017-06-24 10:22|| Front Page Top

#4 BTW, it looks like the Russians might have depleted some of the Afghan population looking at the graph.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-06-24 10:24|| 2017-06-24 10:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Problem is, by their analysis, Afghanistan should already be depopulated.

Posted by ed in texas 2017-06-24 11:22|| 2017-06-24 11:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Can't walk away from all that opium money.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-06-24 13:17|| 2017-06-24 13:17|| Front Page Top

#7 'JUST WALK AWAY': what the Lord Humungous said to the inhabitants of the oil-rich village in ROADWARRIOR!

Posted by borgboy 2017-06-24 14:46|| 2017-06-24 14:46|| Front Page Top

#8 According to Wikipedia, over 5 million Afghan refugees have been repatriated from Pakistan and Iran since 2002, providing the first 25 points of the 70% population increase.

Pakistan still has an estimated 1.7 million Afghan refugees remaining, while Iran has an estimated 2.5 million. It should be noted, as the Wikipedia article does, that Afghan women who grew up in Iran adopted Iranian attitudes toward family planning and birth control, and have brought that back with them along with their Iranian educations.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-06-24 16:49|| 2017-06-24 16:49|| Front Page Top

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