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2021-12-28 Afghanistan

Afghans Desperate; Taliban Face Economic Ruin

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Posted by Fred 2021-12-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top
File under: Taliban/IEA

#1 US-chartered evacuation flights allowing Afghans to flee the Taliban are suspended amid fears the Islamist group was using the planes to leave the country and raise cash abroad

Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-28 07:52|| 2021-12-28 07:52|| Front Page Top

#2 File under: Why you can't have nice things.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-28 07:53|| 2021-12-28 07:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Rush Limbaugh used to call columns like this 'politics by sob story".

Posted by Raj 2021-12-28 09:09|| 2021-12-28 09:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Children are starving but the Taliban leaders and fighters look well-nourished. I wonder how that happens.

Posted by Matt 2021-12-28 09:15|| 2021-12-28 09:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Difficult to adapt to a global economy when all you know about is goats and poppies.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-12-28 11:09|| 2021-12-28 11:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Sometimes trying to jumpstart a culture from the 7th century to the 22nd without developing all the intermediate steps does more barm than good, especially if you just leave suddenly and stop all the financial life support. In a way our hubris caused a lot of this suffering by thinking we could westernize this dumpster of a county. W should have ended it after bouncing the rubble hard and telling them and the Paki’s to avoid another jihadi tumor on their soil or suffer more of the same kinetic education.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-12-28 12:59|| 2021-12-28 12:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Children are starving but the Taliban leaders and fighters look well-nourished. I wonder how that happens.

They eat the children?

Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-28 13:14|| 2021-12-28 13:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Spread some of that opium and rare earth money around?

I thought the Chinese were going to take over.

Posted by KBK 2021-12-28 14:53|| 2021-12-28 14:53|| Front Page Top

#9 "Bad Luck"

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-12-28 15:03|| 2021-12-28 15:03|| Front Page Top

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