Posted on 12/30/2021 4:39:15 AM PST by MtnClimber
It's a culture thing.
The current difficulties in Afghanistan have structural causes that are more serious than cyclical ones such as sanctions. The recent measures taken by the United Nations at the suggestion of the Biden administration may not be enough for a country that has been dependent on foreign aid for decades.
Since the Taliban took control of Kabul last August, their regime has reduced the already limited freedoms available to Afghan citizens. On December 26, the Taliban's Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice declared that women could not travel more than 45 miles without being accompanied by a male relative. Along with the restrictions, the state of the economy, which was already very bad despite international aid, has worsened, especially because Washington has frozen nearly $9.5 billion from the Afghan Central Bank and the World Bank has suspended aid.
On December 22, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution proposed by the United States to facilitate humanitarian aid in a country where food prices have risen sharply. Two weeks earlier, the World Bank had announced $280 million in humanitarian aid to be disbursed by UNICEF and the World Food Programme to Afghanistan.
This collapse is due to more than the sanctions. The causes are fundamental and linked to a social organization and a culture that have made it difficult to truly modernize Afghanistan's structures for decades. In fact, the country has never been able to develop without international aid since the Second World War. These structural and cultural problems have partly made the victory of the Taliban possible. The country's history during the 20th century and its mentality should have made Westerners very cautious.
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Islam is in the process of turning Europe into Afghanistan as we speak. The S-Hole is expanding.
It’s geography.
Their belief system?
It’s a 7th century culture
Now with 21st century weapons
Is it Ray’s sis to state many Afghans decended from Mongol converts to Islam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esuvYHZe22c
Their 80 average IQs due to muzzie inbreeding. Same in every muzzie shithole.
Trying to reason with subhuman savages is the problem.
Until you change the mindset of the people, all the modernization in the world is for nothing.
They will not take care of it nor appreciate it.
Anyone with entitlement mentality sees no need to be responsible for their property because they always expect someone to give them something new to replace it when they are done abusing it. I saw so much of that in the welfare town we lived in for so many years.
>>However, James Dobbins, who served as acting United States ambassador to Afghanistan, has pointed out that Donald Rumsfeld opposed nation-building and the expansion of the international force, unlike secretary of state Colin Powell, whose position finally prevailed.
My opinion of Rumsfeld just went up. My opinion on Powell already couldn’t go much lower, so no change.
Nation-building was a HUGE mistake. You can’t nation build on anything resembling the Western model without eradicating the underlying totalitarian ideology. No one was willing to take this on, in either Afghanistan or Iraq.
Sounds familiar...
"Princeton bars students from leaving NJ county over COVID concerns"
The democrat party constituents are Americas Afghans.
They can only subsist on welfare from Sugar Daddy government that steals from the producer class.
The democrat party base consist of leaches, parasites, cockroaches led by the communist puppet, Joe Biden.
It’s islam.
To modernize Afghan you first need to teach them left from right, to count, to read, to not disappear after they get their paycheck. Could not be done in 20 years, so, with a concerted effort, perhaps the goal of modernizing could be achieved in a few centuries ...
Islam is like the Vax and communism, if everybody would just get on board and do what they are told and followed all the rules the world would be a better place./s
No aid should be sent there. Even if they do use the money for food, that is money they have available for their savage terrorist agenda.
ISLAM!
I have the same problem with the lunatic left. They don't reason, they "feel".
If they are that hungry why don’t they sell some of their ill gotten new toys that biden gave them?
You know the answer. The Taliban is in charge. Having some of their livestock starve to keep their ill gotten new toys is a small price to pay to remain in power.
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