Afghanistan humanitarian crisis

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BBC news 3 out of 4 struggle to find food

A growing number of billionaires and yet shocking food famine around the world.

Shocking decisions taken to sell children.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0q25dwj807o

Chat GPT helped you out in the last 20 minutes has it?

It wasn’t overnight, they had 20 years to adapt. They chose not to. Why are you so desperate to excuse the men here?

I don’t use it

but you can look to previous posts I have posted before about the army not being prepared and the influence of religious leaders and hardly unknown about other countries financing them and who they are and people don’t just adapt especially when they have lived under such fear and being so controlled it’s a generational shift

what I have said is warped violent society breeds violence and living in fear and just about surviving is something which we simply can’t relate to creates a situation that decisions are made by desperate people in this case men that are abhorrent but I don’t believe all these men are cruel and evil they are a product of the terrible conditions they are in

Yep, Trump-esque in your delivery right enough.

Because you skip a key part of the story that reflects poorly on Trump – just as he habitually does.

Trump stopped withdrawal talks with Afghan government and went behind their backs to make a deal directly with the Taliban, in which the Taliban got most of what they wanted.

The Afghan government were not even at the table.

“This was a terrible deal. It was deeply injurious to US interests, let alone ruinous to Afghan interests,” the former Pentagon official told me.
https://theconversation.com/how-trump-the-master-deal-maker-failed-when-it-came-to-negotiating-with-the-taliban-in-afghanistan-250835

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Taliban_deal#

The Taliban were not defeated. When Trump signed the deal with them in 2020 they already controlled more of Afghanistan than at any time since 2001.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-49559493

Tom Tugendhat MP served in Afghanistan, and his speech to the Commons in 2021 after the debacle of the actual withdrawal, said to "call into question the courage of men I fought with — to claim that they ran [...] is shameful."

(Biden isn't mentioned by name in his speech but I think that's who Tugendhat is criticising for saying the Afghan military ran.)
https://spectator.com/article/full-speech-tom-tugendhat-on-afghanistan/?edition=us

He also said:
"I think it's essential that we recognize that the Afghan army did fight, and it fought extremely hard," he told Fox News. "It was betrayed by its leadership, and very sadly it was abandoned by its allies."
https://www.foxnews.com/world/british-parliament-joe-biden-afghan-refugees

Tugendhat also spoke of the need to support Afghan refugees.

There's a bizarre amnesia about all these events being very shoutily pushed on this thread – despite many of us remembering them all too vividly. The shoutiness of some posts seems in inverse proportion to their accuracy.

I don't know what some posters are up to when they do this. There is not the slightest need to rewrite history in order to absolutely condemn the behaviour of the Taliban specifically and appalling misogyny in Afghanistan generally.

He could have borrowed the money from his family member rather than selling his daughter to a familial tape gang.

Shame he never thought about this himself 🙄

He probably didn't consider it a better option - the value of girl children in places like Afghanistan/Pakistan is almost zero:

"Humanitarian organizations in Pakistan, such as the Edhi and Chhipa foundations, have long reported a high incidence of abandoned or dead newborn babies found in rubbish dumps. Tragically, local reporting indicates that the vast majority (frequently over 95%) of these recovered infants are baby girls"