A man distributes bread to Afghan women outside a bakery in Kabul. [Petros Giannakouris/AP Photo]
The New Yorker: Afghanistan Has Become the World’s Largest Humanitarian Crisis
Four months after the Biden Administration withdrew U.S. troops, more than twenty million Afghans are on the brink of famine.
On a recent afternoon in a Kabul hospital, seventeen babies lay beside one another on small beds, their bony elbows touching. Some of them, pink and a little plumper, cried and wriggled as nurses rushed by. Others, their pallid skin shades of blue and gray, were still—save for their skeletal rib cages silently rising and falling. The infants often weigh less than four pounds when they arrive in the neonatal intensive-care unit. Pregnant women across Afghanistan are increasingly malnourished, and their bodies, unable to carry their babies to full term, give birth prematurely. Meagre diets then leave new mothers unable to breast-feed. “A lot of babies are premature,” Abdul Jabad, a pediatrician in his late twenties, told me. “Some survive. Some not.”
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Update #1: As Afghanistan’s harsh winter sets in, many are forced to choose between food and warmth (Washington Post)
Update #2: Millions in Afghanistan are facing extreme hunger (The Week)
WNU Editor: The pictures that are coming out of Afghanistan are grim .... In Pictures: Hunger, poverty continue to stalk desperate Afghans (Al Jazeera).
9 comments:
Joe Biden did that.
Maybe they should invite us back into the country. It would seem the US did good I'm Afghanistan. Perhaps wanting us out wasn't such a good idea after all.
Perhaps we might come back. If so, they will want to make it worth our while. A starting point would be to respect us. Treat us as equals to you.
After all your b!tch boy Biden isn't going to be in office forever!! Treat America with respect.
The US was in Afghanistan for 20 years, spent trillions, and gained nothing. Why do you want to go back??
is Afghanistan on our southern border or northern border? That should determine the proper response.
Good point. A country without borders isn't a country at all and ours aren't respected but we don't request that they be respected.
I don't want to go back into Afghanistan. I don't expect them to invite us back and even if they did I don't think they would meet the most basic of requests we should have which is to respect us and treat us as equals. They'd want things to back to the way they were. Obviously that's not acceptable.
It would seem that on balance America did good while in Afghanistan. Based upon the media narratives prior to our withdrawal I would've expected a vast improvement in the lives of Afghans after America's departure from the country and certainly not a humanitarian disaster!!
Should Afghanistan be used as a base to attack us I suspect America will come back but not as a friend and nation builder but instead to utterly destroy a very dangerous enemy. A number of reports suggest that the US military has extraordinary capabilities at its disposal to destroy an enemy!!
I know that I am told to know
The commenter at 12:37PM isn't me. I'm pretty sure everyone knows that but clarification is always important where there may be doubt.
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