The latest audacity by America towards Afghanistan is their continued holding of seized Afghanistan bank accounts…
The Taliban Are Still Seeking Afghanistan’s Frozen Assets
So writes Foreign Policy columnist Lynne O’Donnell. With about $7 billion in Afghan central-bank assets still frozen in the US, O’Donnell writes, the Biden administration has advanced a plan to set aside half as compensation for 9/11 victims. Given the Taliban’s terrorist links, opacity as to where money would go if it were given to their government, and fears that Taliban officials would simply pocket it, O’Donnell writes that no one seems eager to hand over the cash.
…and this is outrageous because seizing that money has triggered a famine…
As the conflict in Ukraine enters its second month, the humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan is quickly becoming a forgotten crisis. The gains achieved over the past two decades – including women’s rights and education for all – are now at risk more than ever.
International aid agency World Vision warns that almost nine million people are already on the brink of slipping into famine, while more than 130,000 children could die with the country plunging into an economic collapse as the majority of international aid funding has ceased and billions of Afghan private assets remain frozen. Girls’ and women’ rights continue to be in grave danger as teenage girls, grade six and up, are no longer allowed to pursue an education.
“Afghanistan’s crisis has gotten worse since the start of the conflict in Ukraine. Attention has turned away, and the country has rapidly slipped into one of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Failure to act immediately will have grave consequences. We’re already seeing families selling their children or marrying them off. Many more children will suffer and die if Afghanistan is forgotten. We need to act now, release frozen funds, and agree to fund long-term development. Time is running out,” said Asuntha Charles, World Vision Afghanistan’s National Director.
…I’m not sure bombing a bronze age people back to the stone age and then stealing all their international funds after they have the audacity of kicking us occupiers out of their country that then plunges their country into a famine helps with our moral high ground when we lecture Russia.
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If you had ever been to Afghanistan, you would realise the far from being bombed back to the stone age, there has been a enormous amount of infrastructure built over that last 20 years. Ranging from schools, hospitals, roading, power and irrigation projects, housing and all sorts of government facilities. Many, many billions of dollars worth. Probably upwards of $50 billion worth. Accompanied by lots of corruption and graft. None of it sustainable without continuing aid.
I imagine that one of the reasons why the US froze the money was because just about all of it actually came from the US taxpayer. The previous Afghan government was reliant on direct foreign aid grants for 80% of their government expenditure. Mostly from the US and the EU.
Having said that the US needs to release at least half the money, without any preconditions. Just close the book on the issue.
Consider that no Afghani has ever attacked the US, they need to return all of that money.
Release it all and close the book on the issue
I read somewhere that the U$A kept the Afghan invasion on a lengthy simmer because U$A based weapons manufacturers and general and sundry complicit parasites latched onto all that free and easy public money and so are reluctant to unlatch from that particularly profitable. donald rumsfeld and Big Dick chaney were wading knee deep through blood and money.
@wayne.
“Having said that the US needs to release at least half the money, without any preconditions. Just close the book on the issue.”
Wouldn’t that be nice, aye? Too fucking late for that mate.
Give the Afghani people ALL the money, and just keep giving and giving and giving.
lol OK babykiller
Lol.OK john white. You would know.
Dry your tears worrier of the internet. America has tried to resolve many things, many times, Afghanistan is not one of them. The lack of communication is not on Afghanistan, it is on America.
They said he, Osama Bin Laden wasn’t in Afghanistan. Turns out he wasn’t and America destroyed the evidence.
Fuck you cock sucker.
Soundly and logically put Wayne.
@Bob the first. AKA @ Wayne. Define ‘sound’ and ‘logical’ will you? Bullshit usually comes with more detail.
Why should US taxpayers continue to give money to the brutal medieval religious psychopaths who defeated them militarily?
Because that’s what they’ve always done.
“Why should US taxpayers continue to give money to the brutal medieval religious psychopaths who defeated them militarily?” The simple answer is that the US shouldn’t have been there in the first place! Since they decided that they should ‘take over’ they invoked the Pottery Barn Rule – you break it, you buy it.
Before you rant on about ‘BUT RUSSIA….’ , it is not the Russians who are stealing Afghanistan’s gold, it is the brutal God-fearing religious psychopathic US President of the US that is doing that.
No the Russians have already been there and done that
You misspelt heroes. The Taliban made nearly 2,500 yanks good yanks.
Wow. You think medieval misogynistic zealots are heroes for killing Americans? You’re a terrible human being
@ F.U. ? Sorry, who are you talking about again? The American Military Industrial Complex or the Teliban whom the American military industrial complex helped create?
It was al-qaeda that America helped create, not the Taliban. America just spent 20 years fighting them (with one arm tied behind their backs because Leftism). Now you think they should pay them? Bold strategy, I admit, but good luck getting America to agree to it
You’re pretending not to be aware of the Rambo III dedication to the groups who became the Taliban, or the billions of dollars of support the yanks sent them? Hilarious
Swap America the Great for America the Audacious. Seems good.
audacious adjective: audacious
1 showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks.
“a series of audacious takeovers”.
2 showing an impudent lack of respect.
“he made an audacious remark”
The worthless moaning yanks complaining about how the popularly chosen government of Afghanistan is ‘backwards’ or ‘mean’ or ‘antidemocratic’ need to face reality.
Despite billions of dollars spent by the yanks and their Saudi buddies on destroying the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, the DRA continued for more than TWO YEARS after Soviet troops withdrew, because it had genuine popular support and legitimacy.
The completely illegitimate occupational regime that the yanks put in place didn’t last two weeks.
You had your chance for a progressive, democratic Afghanistan that was kinder to women, yanks. You people destroyed it.
Despicable and should be hard to believe except it isnt.
They’re on the brink of famine, thousands addicted to heroin, along with their dogs, forgotten by a covid-obsessed bunch of tesla driving narcissists who would prefer them to just go away so they can mine out their lithium etc, is this owning nothing and being happy? if so it would be hypocritical to make any drugs illegal, oh, hang on…
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