This investigation was co-produced with New Lines Magazine and supported in part by a grant from The Fund for Investigative Journalism. Birds dip between low branches that hang over glittering brooks along the drive from Jalalabad heading south toward the Achin district of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province. Then, the landscape changes, as lush fields give way […]
TBH I struggle to worry for Afghanistan. That country has a terrible culture and while we can criticize the US here, that place was not and has not been fine for a very long time.
So? Doesn’t mean that American occupation of Afghanistan hasn’t delayed their social and economic development by at least two decades (and probably far more).
TBH I struggle to worry for Afghanistan. That country has a terrible culture and while we can criticize the US here, that place was not and has not been fine for a very long time.
Oh gee I sure wonder why
Surely it couldn’t have been impacted by a twenty-year occupation, right? Surely not.
No absolutely not.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacha_bazi
While this might be controversial Afghanistan and a lot of other places in the world do actually need foreign policing and a forceful cultural change.
Not saying how we make the change or what it becomes but some places are so ass.
So? Doesn’t mean that American occupation of Afghanistan hasn’t delayed their social and economic development by at least two decades (and probably far more).
Yeah the Russian invasion before didn’t help either.
Afghanistan’s been catching shit left and right and they get no break lol
It was just paradise before then huh
Ah yes, because a 20-year occupation couldn’t possibly make anything worse.