Honestly, who really gives a damn about Afghanistan?

[Hard On The Wind]

Going forward I mean. Of course we're all unhappy about our past waste of time, money, and humanity over there.

 

[Not for nothing]

another country , another war , that we spent lives and money on, When will we ever learn?

 

[Fat Point Jack]

Now we can buy some items made in Vietnam.

Will anything ever be made in Afghanistan?

 

[Fakenews]

Now we can buy some items made in Vietnam.

Will anything ever be made in Afghanistan?

They don’t even manufacture heroin.  Maybe some horse saddles or scarfs?

 

[justsomeguy!]

The mineral resources will be exploited by some other country or two.

 

[jerseyguy]

another country , another war , that we spent lives and money on, When will we ever learn?

Based on evidence gathered to date I would say never.

 

[Mrleft8]

They don’t even manufacture heroin.  Maybe some horse saddles or scarfs?

Spectacular rugs.

 But in all seriousness, it's a global 3 dimensional chess game. There doesn't have to be anything there, or anyone there, it's just a space on the board. You occupy that space to keep other players from taking other strategic places. Over the course of centuries, Gascanistan has proven to be a space that is very important for no other reason than that it seems that nobody can occupy it for long.

 

[Blue Crab]

Will anything ever be made in Afghanistan?

Money

 

[Ishmael]

Now we can buy some items made in Vietnam.

Will anything ever be made in Afghanistan?

Apparently they have a lot of dust. 

 

[Steam Flyer]

Now we can buy some items made in Vietnam.

Will anything ever be made in Afghanistan?

Heroin

Not recommended

- DSK

 

[Olsonist]

Now we can buy some items made in Vietnam.

Will anything ever be made in Afghanistan?

Opium. There is a lot of rare earth and China will benefit from that.

 

[Amati]

And guess who has a border with Afghanistan?  Somebody who can drive there, and wants a road with safe right of way….

I can’t figure why the UN couldn’t make Kabul a UN city- kind of like Berlin after WW2.  

I hope the weapons we’re giving away are obsolete- the Taliban and Iranians are making out.
 

 

[Hard On The Wind]

#1 failure of the Obama administration was leaving us in Afghanistan. 

 

[Olsonist]

#1 failure of the Obama administration was leaving us in Afghanistan. 

Especially after OBL was dead.

 

[jerseyguy]

A not so subtle message to continue pouring billions into the MIC?

“Top general: US could face an increase in terrorist threats from Taliban-run Afghanistan”

https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-afghanistan-terror-threat-20210815-woqztq57kzenxffykqd6yzcw6q-story.html

 

[justsomeguy!]

Heroin trade will most likely come to a halt

That I highly doubt.

I remember the Taliban were once prohibiting poppy cultivation, but not so much anymore? 

 

[longy]

They (Taliban) have already outlawed covid vaccines in their race bak into the dark ages.

 

[justsomeguy!]

Without US troops guarding the crop? 

I'm assuming you meant to use a purple font?

Actually, the Taliban were pretty effective at shutting down Afghani production before the US got involved there. Odd, that.

In July 2000, when the Taliban controlled most of the country, its reclusive one-eyed leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, declared that opium was un-Islamic and imposed a ban on growing poppies.Much to the surprise of the rest of the world, the ban worked. Afraid to cross the Taliban, Afghan farmers immediately ceased planting poppies. The United Nations estimated that poppy cultivation plunged by 90 percent from 2000 to 2001.

 

[Ease the sheet.]

Now we can buy some items made in Vietnam.

Will anything ever be made in Afghanistan?

More children from forced underaged marriages....