When the U.S. military left, billions of Western development dollars went with it.------------
In NATO countries, the number of people who die of heroin overdoses every year (more than 10,000)-------------
is 5 times higher than the total number of NATO troops that have been killed in Afghanistan in the past 8 years."
ltlee1 wrote:
When the U.S. military left, billions of Western development dollars went with it.------------
It's very difficult to police the world. Maybe China can try it.
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In NATO countries, the number of people who die of heroin overdoses every year (more than 10,000)-------------
is 5 times higher than the total number of NATO troops that have been killed in Afghanistan in the past 8 years."
There ain't no equality in Nature, and there doesn't need to be!
If there needed to be, then God would have made it that way!
ltlee1 wrote:
When the U.S. military left, billions of Western development dollars went with it.------------
It's very difficult to police the world. Maybe China can try it. ------------------
In NATO countries, the number of people who die of heroin overdoses every year (more than 10,000)-------------
is 5 times higher than the total number of NATO troops that have been killed in Afghanistan in the past 8 years."
There ain't no equality in Nature, and there doesn't need to be!
If there needed to be, then God would have made it that way!
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"This week marked a year since the Taliban took the Afghan capital of Kabul after the United States completed its military withdrawal following nearly two decades of war. News from Afghanistan further illuminates America’s failed attempt at nationbuilding.
Marking the anniversary, large numbers of Taliban jihadi militants shouted “Victory” and “Freedom” throughout Kabul, celebrating the Taliban’s return to power after two decades of war against the U.S. and the government it created. ButTaliban militants weren’t alone in Monday’s celebrations. As the Washington Post reported, families piled in cars drove through the streets, honking their horns as individuals hung outside their vehicles to photograph the celebrations. Other
Muhammad Zubair Shahab, a 22-year-old Taliban fighter who helped the jihadist group force its way into Kabul last August, told the Washington Post, “for us, this is a day of liberation.”Kabul, continued Western sanctions on Taliban leaders and the freezing of the country’s foreign-currency reserves only compounded the nation’s economic woes. Add on top of that a severe drought and global supply shocks arising from events like the
“By the grace of God in a single year, we have brought security to Kabul and eliminated corruption,” said the young Taliban fighter, who was just an infant when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001.
Afghanistan’s security position and economy nevertheless remain on precarious footing.
...
When the U.S. military left, billions of Western development dollars went with it. Though these development schemes were rife with corruption, they undeniably injected billions of dollars into the Afghan economy. And once the Taliban took control of
But the country’s compounding predicaments haven’t deterred Taliban fighters like Shahab or caused notable concern within Taliban ranks about its leadership's capacity to rule the country.their own interests... We are here for the Afghan people.”
“When you are liberated, you must endure hardship,” Shahab told the Washington Post of the country’s current economic situation. Regardless, “the invaders were never going to improve the economy,” Shahab asserted. “They were just here for
There’s plenty of reason to doubt that the Taliban are acting fully in service of the Afghan people. The regime rules with an iron fist based on the group’s interpretation of Islamic law. But, reflecting on the United States’s record inAfghanistan, it is hard to say that Shahab is completely off-base when it comes to the United States’ impact on the Afghan economy.
For example...United Nations report from 2009 stated it plainly:
The prevalence of opium poppy during America’s two-decade stay in Afghanistan had disastrous effects on not only Afghan society, with soaring substance-abuse levels and the rise of a brutal drug trade, but rippled beyond the nation's borders. A
In NATO countries, the number of people who die of heroin overdoses every year (more than 10,000) is five times higher than the total number of NATO troops that have been killed in Afghanistan in the past eight years."
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-year-of-the-taliban/
On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 2:28:43 AM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:building.
"This week marked a year since the Taliban took the Afghan capital of Kabul after the United States completed its military withdrawal following nearly two decades of war. News from Afghanistan further illuminates America’s failed attempt at nation
Taliban militants weren’t alone in Monday’s celebrations. As the Washington Post reported, families piled in cars drove through the streets, honking their horns as individuals hung outside their vehicles to photograph the celebrations. OtherMarking the anniversary, large numbers of Taliban jihadi militants shouted “Victory” and “Freedom” throughout Kabul, celebrating the Taliban’s return to power after two decades of war against the U.S. and the government it created. But
Kabul, continued Western sanctions on Taliban leaders and the freezing of the country’s foreign-currency reserves only compounded the nation’s economic woes. Add on top of that a severe drought and global supply shocks arising from events like theMuhammad Zubair Shahab, a 22-year-old Taliban fighter who helped the jihadist group force its way into Kabul last August, told the Washington Post, “for us, this is a day of liberation.”
“By the grace of God in a single year, we have brought security to Kabul and eliminated corruption,” said the young Taliban fighter, who was just an infant when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001.
Afghanistan’s security position and economy nevertheless remain on precarious footing.
...
When the U.S. military left, billions of Western development dollars went with it. Though these development schemes were rife with corruption, they undeniably injected billions of dollars into the Afghan economy. And once the Taliban took control of
their own interests... We are here for the Afghan people.”But the country’s compounding predicaments haven’t deterred Taliban fighters like Shahab or caused notable concern within Taliban ranks about its leadership's capacity to rule the country.
“When you are liberated, you must endure hardship,” Shahab told the Washington Post of the country’s current economic situation. Regardless, “the invaders were never going to improve the economy,” Shahab asserted. “They were just here for
Afghanistan, it is hard to say that Shahab is completely off-base when it comes to the United States’ impact on the Afghan economy.There’s plenty of reason to doubt that the Taliban are acting fully in service of the Afghan people. The regime rules with an iron fist based on the group’s interpretation of Islamic law. But, reflecting on the United States’s record in
United Nations report from 2009 stated it plainly:For example...
The prevalence of opium poppy during America’s two-decade stay in Afghanistan had disastrous effects on not only Afghan society, with soaring substance-abuse levels and the rise of a brutal drug trade, but rippled beyond the nation's borders. A
rebalance their needs from Afghanistan instead.In NATO countries, the number of people who die of heroin overdoses every year (more than 10,000) is five times higher than the total number of NATO troops that have been killed in Afghanistan in the past eight years."NATO countries in high consumptions of heroin produced from opium fields in Afghanistan. It goes to show that US and NATO presence are not interested in containing the growth of opium poppy fields in Afghanistan. Hence, they should buy more to
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-year-of-the-taliban/
On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 11:45:30 AM UTC-4, stoney wrote:nation building.
On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 2:28:43 AM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
"This week marked a year since the Taliban took the Afghan capital of Kabul after the United States completed its military withdrawal following nearly two decades of war. News from Afghanistan further illuminates America’s failed attempt at
Taliban militants weren’t alone in Monday’s celebrations. As the Washington Post reported, families piled in cars drove through the streets, honking their horns as individuals hung outside their vehicles to photograph the celebrations. OtherMarking the anniversary, large numbers of Taliban jihadi militants shouted “Victory” and “Freedom” throughout Kabul, celebrating the Taliban’s return to power after two decades of war against the U.S. and the government it created. But
of Kabul, continued Western sanctions on Taliban leaders and the freezing of the country’s foreign-currency reserves only compounded the nation’s economic woes. Add on top of that a severe drought and global supply shocks arising from events like theMuhammad Zubair Shahab, a 22-year-old Taliban fighter who helped the jihadist group force its way into Kabul last August, told the Washington Post, “for us, this is a day of liberation.”
“By the grace of God in a single year, we have brought security to Kabul and eliminated corruption,” said the young Taliban fighter, who was just an infant when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001.
Afghanistan’s security position and economy nevertheless remain on precarious footing.
...
When the U.S. military left, billions of Western development dollars went with it. Though these development schemes were rife with corruption, they undeniably injected billions of dollars into the Afghan economy. And once the Taliban took control
for their own interests... We are here for the Afghan people.”But the country’s compounding predicaments haven’t deterred Taliban fighters like Shahab or caused notable concern within Taliban ranks about its leadership's capacity to rule the country.
“When you are liberated, you must endure hardship,” Shahab told the Washington Post of the country’s current economic situation. Regardless, “the invaders were never going to improve the economy,” Shahab asserted. “They were just here
Afghanistan, it is hard to say that Shahab is completely off-base when it comes to the United States’ impact on the Afghan economy.There’s plenty of reason to doubt that the Taliban are acting fully in service of the Afghan people. The regime rules with an iron fist based on the group’s interpretation of Islamic law. But, reflecting on the United States’s record in
United Nations report from 2009 stated it plainly:For example...
The prevalence of opium poppy during America’s two-decade stay in Afghanistan had disastrous effects on not only Afghan society, with soaring substance-abuse levels and the rise of a brutal drug trade, but rippled beyond the nation's borders. A
rebalance their needs from Afghanistan instead.In NATO countries, the number of people who die of heroin overdoses every year (more than 10,000) is five times higher than the total number of NATO troops that have been killed in Afghanistan in the past eight years."NATO countries in high consumptions of heroin produced from opium fields in Afghanistan. It goes to show that US and NATO presence are not interested in containing the growth of opium poppy fields in Afghanistan. Hence, they should buy more to
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-year-of-the-taliban/
Actually, Afghans also suffer greatly from the widespread availability of opium. In 2018,
Afghan could have produced as much as 380 ton of opium which was ~85% of world output.
"The New Face of Drug Addiction in Afghanistan
by Cesar Chelala
The high number of opium-addicted Afghan women and children is a dramatic consequence
of the war in that country. It painfully illustrates how foreign intervention has doomed generations
of children to a miserable life.
A U.S.- funded study released in April of 2015, found that one in every nine Afghans -including
women and children- uses illegal drugs. For several years, donors have disbursed hundreds of
millions of dollars to control Afghanistan’s drug problem. However, most of those funds have
been spent on poppy eradication and much less attention has been paid to the rising addiction
problem. The U.S. has spent over $8.62 billion in taxpayer funds on counternarcotic efforts.
Although the U.S. government has paid poppy farmers to switch to legitimate crops such as wheat,
poppy cultivation has proven to be too lucrative to stop. In 2014, opium cultivation reached record
levels: more than 553,000 acres, an increase of seven percent from the year before, according to
estimates of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC).
The export value of opium trade is over $4 billion. A quarter of that amount is being earned by opium
farmers and the rest is going to district officials, drug traffickers, insurgents, and warlords according
to this agency. The high drug revenue prolongs insecurity and fuels corruption in the country, already
besieged by multiple problems.
According to the U.S. Government estimates, although poppy cultivation had decreased in 2019 compared
to 2018, potential pure opium production had increased. 380 tons of heroin and morphine are produced
annually, which is approximately 85% of the global supply."
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/12/04/the-new-face-of-drug-addiction-in-afghanistan/
American media talked about children and girls attending schools day in and day out. How
about "one in every nine Afghans -including women and children- uses illegal drugs"?
Would they have better lives if Afghanistan was opium free?
On Sunday, August 28, 2022 at 4:00:11 PM UTC-4, ltlee1 wrote:nation building.
On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 11:45:30 AM UTC-4, stoney wrote:
On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 2:28:43 AM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
"This week marked a year since the Taliban took the Afghan capital of Kabul after the United States completed its military withdrawal following nearly two decades of war. News from Afghanistan further illuminates America’s failed attempt at
Taliban militants weren’t alone in Monday’s celebrations. As the Washington Post reported, families piled in cars drove through the streets, honking their horns as individuals hung outside their vehicles to photograph the celebrations. OtherMarking the anniversary, large numbers of Taliban jihadi militants shouted “Victory” and “Freedom” throughout Kabul, celebrating the Taliban’s return to power after two decades of war against the U.S. and the government it created. But
of Kabul, continued Western sanctions on Taliban leaders and the freezing of the country’s foreign-currency reserves only compounded the nation’s economic woes. Add on top of that a severe drought and global supply shocks arising from events like theMuhammad Zubair Shahab, a 22-year-old Taliban fighter who helped the jihadist group force its way into Kabul last August, told the Washington Post, “for us, this is a day of liberation.”
“By the grace of God in a single year, we have brought security to Kabul and eliminated corruption,” said the young Taliban fighter, who was just an infant when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001.
Afghanistan’s security position and economy nevertheless remain on precarious footing.
...
When the U.S. military left, billions of Western development dollars went with it. Though these development schemes were rife with corruption, they undeniably injected billions of dollars into the Afghan economy. And once the Taliban took control
for their own interests... We are here for the Afghan people.”But the country’s compounding predicaments haven’t deterred Taliban fighters like Shahab or caused notable concern within Taliban ranks about its leadership's capacity to rule the country.
“When you are liberated, you must endure hardship,” Shahab told the Washington Post of the country’s current economic situation. Regardless, “the invaders were never going to improve the economy,” Shahab asserted. “They were just here
Afghanistan, it is hard to say that Shahab is completely off-base when it comes to the United States’ impact on the Afghan economy.There’s plenty of reason to doubt that the Taliban are acting fully in service of the Afghan people. The regime rules with an iron fist based on the group’s interpretation of Islamic law. But, reflecting on the United States’s record in
United Nations report from 2009 stated it plainly:For example...
The prevalence of opium poppy during America’s two-decade stay in Afghanistan had disastrous effects on not only Afghan society, with soaring substance-abuse levels and the rise of a brutal drug trade, but rippled beyond the nation's borders. A
rebalance their needs from Afghanistan instead.In NATO countries, the number of people who die of heroin overdoses every year (more than 10,000) is five times higher than the total number of NATO troops that have been killed in Afghanistan in the past eight years."NATO countries in high consumptions of heroin produced from opium fields in Afghanistan. It goes to show that US and NATO presence are not interested in containing the growth of opium poppy fields in Afghanistan. Hence, they should buy more to
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-year-of-the-taliban/
Actually, Afghans also suffer greatly from the widespread availability of opium. In 2018,
Afghan could have produced as much as 380 ton of opium which was ~85% of world output.
"The New Face of Drug Addiction in Afghanistan
by Cesar Chelala
The high number of opium-addicted Afghan women and children is a dramatic consequence
of the war in that country. It painfully illustrates how foreign intervention has doomed generations
of children to a miserable life.
A U.S.- funded study released in April of 2015, found that one in every nine Afghans -including
women and children- uses illegal drugs. For several years, donors have disbursed hundreds of
millions of dollars to control Afghanistan’s drug problem. However, most of those funds have
been spent on poppy eradication and much less attention has been paid to the rising addiction
problem. The U.S. has spent over $8.62 billion in taxpayer funds on counternarcotic efforts.
Although the U.S. government has paid poppy farmers to switch to legitimate crops such as wheat,
poppy cultivation has proven to be too lucrative to stop. In 2014, opium cultivation reached record
levels: more than 553,000 acres, an increase of seven percent from the year before, according to
estimates of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC).
The export value of opium trade is over $4 billion. A quarter of that amount is being earned by opium
farmers and the rest is going to district officials, drug traffickers, insurgents, and warlords according
to this agency. The high drug revenue prolongs insecurity and fuels corruption in the country, already
besieged by multiple problems.
According to the U.S. Government estimates, although poppy cultivation had decreased in 2019 compared
to 2018, potential pure opium production had increased. 380 tons of heroin and morphine are produced
annually, which is approximately 85% of the global supply."
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/12/04/the-new-face-of-drug-addiction-in-afghanistan/
American media talked about children and girls attending schools day in and day out. HowOne in nine Afghan addicted because NATO occupier changed the policy from no poppy
about "one in every nine Afghans -including women and children- uses illegal drugs"?
Would they have better lives if Afghanistan was opium free?
cultivation policy enforced by Taliban to a poppy cultivation allowed policy, as many as
553,000 acres in 2018.
Is it not a kind of genocide? Crime against humanity?
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