Save the Children said Wednesday that it was “extremely concerned” about the possibility that children in the drought-stricken country would face a severe hunger crisis as aid organizations suspended work after the Taliban assumed control.


“Even before the Taliban advancement, Afghanistan had the second-highest number of people facing emergency hunger levels in the world. Half of all children under five were expected to suffer from acute malnutrition this year and require specialized treatment to survive,” the group said in a statement.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...270_story.html

And that's while we're there after having been there for twenty years pumping billions of dollars a year into the economy. This is clearly a spectacularly disfunctional country. Us being there creates at least as many problems as it solves eh.

Relatedly, these three twitter posts:

https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1428471515645890574

If you're just relentlessly bombing these fuckers it's unlikely to gain you any support.



This is the most likely reason the Taliban are playing nice:

https://twitter.com/aahmady/status/1427883009164955649

Keep scrolling. Bottom line is they've got no money. If they can't attract some level of western aid then they're fucked and after their attempts at governing before 9/11 they're well aware of this. If they thought they'd be better off taking thousands of hostages and ransoming them off then they'd do it in a second.

Media coverage of the whole thing in America:



https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status...63331916599315



https://twitter.com/_waleedshahid/st...67357924696065



https://twitter.com/russciandra1/sta...67027224588292



The bomb threat guy today:



https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1428435915811209218



https://twitter.com/stevesilberman/s...54130683502593



related:



https://twitter.com/RexChapman/statu...49634158010369



https://twitter.com/BGrueskin/status...75463184572416


Fox News:



https://twitter.com/bad_takes/status...40702386147333



https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/sta...39300764086278