dagblog - Comments for "Facing Economic Collapse, Afghanistan Is Gripped by Starvation" http://dagblog.com/link/facing-economic-collapse-afghanistan-gripped-starvation-34900 Comments for "Facing Economic Collapse, Afghanistan Is Gripped by Starvation" en goes for the U.S. too: Do http://dagblog.com/comment/312397#comment-312397 <a id="comment-312397"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/312396#comment-312396">Do-gooders don&#039;t want to work</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>goes for the U.S. too: <em>Do-gooders don't want to work without security. </em></p> <p>Hot spot policing enables good social workers and teachers in disadvantaged areas turning high crime and with lots of weapons. And nobody but slumlords are going to buy property in a high crime area.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 05 Dec 2021 09:35:50 +0000 artappraiser comment 312397 at http://dagblog.com Do-gooders don't want to work http://dagblog.com/comment/312396#comment-312396 <a id="comment-312396"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/facing-economic-collapse-afghanistan-gripped-starvation-34900">Facing Economic Collapse, Afghanistan Is Gripped by Starvation</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Do-gooders don't want to work without security. What happens when almost everyone who knows how to run a country leaves and only those who only know how to make war and read the Koran is left? And few people are paid and then there is a drought?</p> <blockquote> <p>Nearly four months since the Taliban seized power, Afghanistan is on the brink of a mass starvation that aid groups say <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/world/asia/afghanistan-united-nations-crisis.html" title="">threatens to kill a million children</a> this winter — <span style="font-size:18px">a toll that <a href="https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/figures/2021/human-and-budgetary-costs-date-us-war-afghanistan-2001-2022" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">would dwarf the total number</a> of Afghan civilians estimated to have been killed as a direct result of the war over the past 20 years<a href="https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/figures/2021/human-and-budgetary-costs-date-us-war-afghanistan-2001-2022" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">.</a></span></p> <p>While Afghanistan has suffered from malnutrition for decades, the country’s hunger crisis has drastically worsened in recent months.</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p> Practically overnight, billions of dollars in foreign aid that propped up the previous Western-backed government vanished and U.S. sanctions on the Taliban isolated the country from the global financial system, paralyzing Afghan banks and impeding relief work by humanitarian organizations.</p> </blockquote> </div></div></div> Sun, 05 Dec 2021 09:25:28 +0000 artappraiser comment 312396 at http://dagblog.com