I quoted only one story to avoid becoming tedious. There are other stories, some more pointed than the one I used.
As you see by these PICTURES and story, the food isn't going to waste.
A staged picture is easily created. And if you've used Photoshop, it is quite easy to adapt and modify photographs. This is not necessarily a bad thing - perhaps it will be useful propaganda to keep the coalition together. Or perhaps it will help to mute opposition to the war in the US.
As an example, I took a photograph, and in a short time changed the background, moved the head in one photograph to the body in another, and it looked fine. I could spot a few artifacts with a magnifying glass, but I'm just a neophyte with the program. A pro is a different matter!
The Taliban controls the food. If we can break that control, we win and the people will no longer need to kowtow to the Taliban to get fed.
A rather large "if" I'm afraid. And notice that they are confident enough of their control that they are now handing out weapons. Clearly they don't believe that the masses are a risk! So I really wonder whether the ordinary Afghan sees himself/herself as kowtowing. Might it be that the ordinary Aghan likes the Taliban? You and I don't, but that doesn't mean they couldn't.
Plus it is the Christian thing to do.
One man's liturgy is another's heresy.
How do you know the story you posted wasn't staged?
There, run rings around you logically.