Posted on 12/20/2021 7:57:46 PM PST by BenLurkin
In a letter to both Yellen and President Biden, the group of lawmakers said that failure to relax international restrictions on Afghanistan’s banking system risks creating “economic pain and humanitarian collapse,” as fears mount that a crumbling economy will spur a new refugee and hunger crisis.
The Biden administration in August froze the majority of the Afghan central government’s $9.4 billion in assets — most of which is held in U.S. bank accounts — after the Taliban took control of Kabul and the country. The Biden administration has said recognition, and release of funds, will not come until the Taliban form an “inclusive” government, guarantee the rights of minorities, women and girls — including full female education — and sever all ties with terrorist groups including al-Qaeda that threaten the U.S. homeland, and end all reprisals against Afghans.
Congressional Republicans have been adamant that the United States cannot allow the Taliban to access even smaller amounts of funding, such as a special fund allocated by the International Monetary Fund.
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Awwww. Poor Jihad Squad is short on their poppy payments.
I’m pretty sure the money came from the US Treasury in the first place.
Afghanistan fed itself long before any Afghan cursed the name of George W. Bush Jr.
I think they used to weave rugs in Afghanistan.
I mean, how’s a hard working Democrat gonna get his bribe paid on? The Ghannies need that cash to pay out, man!
Interesting how many have their roots in foreign countries.
Better to give the money to an NGO group that the taliban allows in to help the people, but do not give money to them.
It’s not our problem. Starvation and collapse, It’s the spoils of war.
They knew what we expected for normal relationship. They could have chosen this route long ago, instead they choose the old and easy path of societal stagnation and jihad. Change could have been a wonderful and prosperous evolution.
They should seek out help from China, Iran, and Pakistan. They helped them win the war, now let them help with the peace. Should these friends fail them, they should understand the betrayal was always part of their plan.
In the end, they will be impoverished, enslaved, and forgotten by those that ‘helped’ them.
“It’s not our problem. Starvation and collapse, It’s the spoils of war.”
To the victor go the spoils, and to the victor goes the problems of the spoils, it goes both ways.
In serious the Taliban know there are weak, naive people in the west and can play the sympathy card and win that way.
DEDUCT the value of the equipment left behind & the cost of the evacuations.
That $83 billion was spread out over four administrations.
I don’t care if it was spread out over 20 administrations, it was $83 billion worth of US taxpayer hardware.
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