As The U.S. And NATO Prepare To Leave Afghanistan, The Country Faces An Economic 'Time-Bomb'

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AFP: Afghanistan faces economic timebomb as NATO war ends

WNU Editor: You know there is a problem in Afghanistan when you read things like this ....

.... The Kabul government is expecting income this year of around $1.8 billion dollars -- less than the value of Afghanistan's opium crop, which feeds the coffers of the Taliban.

If the Taliban is in a position to bring in as much money (if not more) than the Kabul government, there is going to be a problem. But this has always been the problem .... Afghanistan is a country where the economy functions on foreign aid and the opium trade .... and with foreign aid now drying up, what will be left is the opium trade. That is why talk about an "economic time-bomb" is inaccurate .... from where I stand .... that bomb has already gone off.