Posted on 01/01/2022 3:55:24 AM PST by RandFan
SHEDAI CAMP, Afghanistan (AP) — In a sprawling settlement of mud brick huts in western Afghanistan housing people displaced by drought and war, a woman is fighting to save her daughter.
Aziz Gul’s husband sold their 10-year-old into marriage without telling his wife, taking a down-payment so he could feed his family of five children. Otherwise, he told her, they would all starve. He had to sacrifice one to save the rest.
Many of Afghanistan’s growing number of destitute people are making such desperate decisions as their nation spirals into a vortex of poverty.
Afghanistan’s aid-dependent economy was already teetering when the Taliban seized power in mid-August amid a chaotic withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops. The international community froze Afghanistan’s assets abroad and halted funding, unwilling to work with a Taliban government given its reputation for brutality during its previous rule 20 years ago.
The consequences have been devastating for a country battered by war, drought and the coronavirus pandemic. State employees haven’t been paid in months. Malnutrition stalks the most vulnerable, and aid groups say more than half the population faces acute food shortages
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There will always be desparation, nothing new, hate to say it kinda to a point I really care less and less about that nation.
What a typically leftist thing to do.
Western Afghanistan borders Iran. Let the Iranians come to the aid of their fellow muslims.
The British, when they occupied Afghanistan, were appalled that parents sold their children. Children in Afghanistan are a commodity. What amazes me about the media is they do no research. They don’t even ask any questions. They just pursue their America is bad agenda.
(The fact that America was embarrassed in Afghanistan is entirely due to Biden. Whether we should have even been there is a separate question.)
bullsugar! they look at kids as something to make money from.
They have too many and make the kids beg- or dance for $$.
Maybe they are not so dumb. They have been living off of Western aid or the drug trade (kind of an illegitimate Western aid) for two generations.
They expect to guilt us into paying more.
Coming to a neighborhood near you in 22?
I bet Joe is wondering if they have any scratch and sniff models available.
Bullsh*t. Odd how men in western countries aren't making the choice of selling their daughters but it's a common choice in Muslim hellholes. Maybe Azir Bul's husband - and Aziz need to rethink their damn culture and econommic system spawned by Islam.
I suspect sniffing is the first of many assaults against a child... Is Biden constrained by parents standing a few inches away?
DITTO
Years of death, pain and destruction, BILLIONS of dollars, thousands of lives of US boys, forfeit.... for WHAT?
F*%k A’stn
If they couldn’t make a country with all that help....’ F ‘ them
SSDD.
Never again.
Hey dementia Joe,
Take any showers with your daughter lately ya worthless POS?
Do they offer “Free delivery”?
Its not new.
They already HAD a country.
This in Texas - “Starting Jan. 1, all salons and massage parlors across the state will have to update signage in their businesses aiming to crack down on human trafficking.”
Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Except you’re getting 10’s of thousands of these savages - dispersed throughout the U.S. - over the coming years...
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