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@[email protected]M to World [email protected] • 2 years ago

America’s War in Afghanistan Devastated the Country’s Environment in Ways That May Never Be Cleaned Up

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America’s War in Afghanistan Devastated the Country’s Environment in Ways That May Never Be Cleaned Up - Inside Climate News
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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 […]
  • @[email protected]OPM
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    9•2 years ago

    Oh gee I sure wonder why

    Surely it couldn’t have been impacted by a twenty-year occupation, right? Surely not.

    • @[email protected]
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      8•2 years ago

      It was just paradise before then huh

      • @[email protected]OPM
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        2•2 years ago

        Ah yes, because a 20-year occupation couldn’t possibly make anything worse.

    • @[email protected]
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      7•2 years ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]OPM
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        2•2 years ago

        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).

    • DonWito
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      5•2 years ago

      Yeah the Russian invasion before didn’t help either.

      • @[email protected]OPM
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        3•2 years ago

        Afghanistan’s been catching shit left and right and they get no break lol

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