Noorullah Noori, 24, looks online for ways to jumpstart his logistics business. As Afghanistan’s economy flounders, he has struggled to find clients and now thinks the government should reconcile with the Taliban to turn things around. (Tim Craig/THE WASHINGTON POST)
Washington Post: Why disaffected young Afghans are warming to a Taliban comeback
KABUL — At this stage of his career, Ahmad Jawad would like to be selling the terraced estates that housed Taliban leaders before they were driven from the Afghan capital in 2001.
But the 27-year-old realtor hasn’t sold a house in nearly a year, and he is so desperate for money that he hopes the Taliban returns to Kabul to impose “rule of law.”
“If they can enforce the law like it was enforced during their reign, they are welcome,” said Jawad, who blames unemployment, graft and the lack of security for a collapse in Kabul’s housing market. “There was less crime. There was less corruption. There was less embezzlement.”
His words reflect a shift in the opinions held by some of Kabul’s millennials on both the Taliban and President Ashraf Ghani’s government: Bashing the Islamist insurgency has gone out of style as frustration with the current leadership mounts.
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WNU Editor: Frustration .... disillusionment .... fear of the future .... the reasons are many and they are probably justified.
Who cares about Afghanistan any longer? Nobody. The people involved have made their millions and fattened their bank accounts, the politicians no longer have many "troops to support" with their inflated Pentagon budgets, and its time to move on to a new set of "threats" i.e. financial rewards.
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ReplyDeleteWhy Don't you just say "Haliburton, Cheney" foam at the mouth and be done with it?
Sort of like Pavlov ringing a bell.
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