GOVERNMENT WEBSITE, FRUIT BRUCIE?Bruce » 10 Aug 2023, 9:46 pm » wrote: ↑ No, the USA is not funding the Taliban.
We send about four billion dollars a year of food and medicine through USAID and other Christian charities to feed and doctor the starving children of Afghanistan.
https://www.usaid.gov/afghanistan
Would you rather they sit around in caves and plot revenge against us, or be as dependent on our food and medicine as Indians on the reservation ?
There are numerous sources claiming the Aid is not reaching the people it is intended for.... Those resources are confiscated by local / regional Taliban Commanders and distributed amongst themselves, supporters & causes.. workers who distribute the food, medicine & supplies are threatened with violence.. I'm sure they also engage in the age old parasitic practice of selling donated Aid on the Black Market for cash or Barter..Bruce » 10 Aug 2023, 9:46 pm » wrote: ↑ No, the USA is not funding the Taliban.
We send about four billion dollars a year of food and medicine through USAID and other Christian charities to feed and doctor the starving children of Afghanistan.
https://www.usaid.gov/afghanistan
Would you rather they sit around in caves and plot revenge against us, or be as dependent on our food and medicine as Indians on the reservation ?
The USA invaded Afghanistan in 2001 and fought a 20 year war until we packed up the boys as took them home. We may have spent a trillion dollars, fighting tribesmen who live in mud huts.Kobia2 » 10 Aug 2023, 10:30 pm » wrote: ↑ There are numerous sources claiming the Aid is not reaching the people it is intended for.... Those resources are confiscated by local / regional Taliban Commanders and distributed amongst themselves, supporters & causes.. workers who distribute the food, medicine & supplies are threatened with violence.. I'm sure they also engage in the age old parasitic practice of selling donated Aid on the Black Market for cash or Barter..
Let their Muslim brothers in the region help them..
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandso ... and-causes
NPR interviewed six Afghan aid workers from five Afghan provinces. They shared experiences of the Taliban attempting to divert foreign aid to their members through bullying, threats of legal action and even violence. The interviewees, who requested their locations be kept discreet, span four provinces in both the north and the south.
Feed & compensate them so we don't have to fight them?Bruce » 10 Aug 2023, 10:44 pm » wrote: ↑ The USA invaded Afghanistan in 2001 and fought a 20 year war until we packed up the boys as took them home. We may have spent a trillion dollars, fighting tribesmen who live in mud huts.
Whatever the Taliban steal they eat or distribute.
The idea is to make them dependent on USAID
Then, they’ll want to keep it coming and not plot against us.
Its ten times cheaper at least than fighting them.