Didn’t we already build the Afghan economy? And finance the Taliban? But enough is never enough.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai said the US is responsible for the existing crisis in Afghanistan and that the US should play an active role in the Afghan economy because Afghanistan’s economy was damaged over the past 20 years.
“It is the duty of the world, especially the US, to play an active role in the construction of Afghanistan; as it damaged our economy in the past 20 years, now it is their responsibility to come and rebuild the Afghan economy,” Stanikzai said.
From 20,000 feet up.
But of course Biden will do just that. The media has kept up a steady drumbeat of claiming that we have to save Afghanistan from a famine. That will be followed by claims that the only way to fight radicalization in Afghanistan is by investing in their private sector.
According to Stanikzai, the US pledged during the Doha talks that it would recognize the next Islamic system in the country and keep its (US) embassy open in Kabul.
The Taliban also pledged that they wouldn’t conquer Afghanistan.
But negotiating with terrorists means that they’ll break every agreement and demand that we keep our end of it anyway.
roberta says
Did I read that someone is hungry? In need of a few USA crumbs? Scared the animals are going to revolt, and start eating Talibanese?
These guys are just not good planers. Eat pork crybabies.
David M says
The Taliban want it both ways. They were warned if they took over the country foreign aid would cease, but they still went ahead & did it. They were also warning the US troops they would attack them if they didn’t leave the country, so they got what they wanted. I do feel sorry for the starving Afghan people though, I hope they get still be fed.
mortimer says
The United States and her Allies CREATED a modern Afghanistan in the last 20 years. They systematically created INSTITUTIONS that DID NOT EXIST UNDER THE 7th CENTURY TALIBAN.
They created a real estate board, a chamber of commerce, various social aid agencies, trade organizations, unions, professional organizations … all of which were absent under the Taliban version one and all of which are VITAL to create a strong society and economy.
The Taliban is now systematically destroying the institutions that were created that are the structure of what makes an economy run.
What total fools the Taliban are.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, sadly the US could do little but put a gloss of modernism in Afghanistan. That they can barely feed themselves without Western aid is not actually a good sign.
gregbeetham says
It was always destined to fail; the underlying fabric of Afghanistan’s sleazy corrupt Islamic culture was never able to morph into a free democratic system without transferring the same moral corruption across into the quasi legitimate government structure pasted on over the top. The mystery is that it took 20 years to find that out and I’m not sure if even now the reason why it failed is understood. To install a democratic administration in Afghanistan the entire culture would have to be remodelled, such as banning Islam, burning all the Korans, demolish all the mosques and lock the place down like the Chinese would do and then conduct a re-education of the entire country until such time as Islam became just a dim memory.
And after all that you would have to invent some kind of self supporting economic structure that didn’t involve growing and exporting opium and its derivatives in a country that historically had a very poor education uptake and hardly any industry.
What are the chances that the West would see that through to the end?
The sensible solution is to just let the Chinese takeover then it becomes their headache.
James Lincoln says
gregbeetham says,
“…I’m not sure if even now the reason why it failed is understood.”
We know that the real reason that a failed was because of islam.
But, to my knowledge, no one in the US government or US military has publicly stated this.
And we all know why…
gravenimage says
True,Greg and James. It was never possible for us to civilize Afghanistan.
mortimer says
Sell all the weapons Bribed-man left for our most desperate enemies (Islamic terrorists) and then the Taliban can feed the people.
Keith O says
+1
gravenimage says
Good point, Mortimer. I’ve heard figures between 24 and 85 billion for the worth of weapons and equipment left behind in Afghanistan.
PRCS says
Whol would those weapons be sold to and who would suffer most from that?
“Unvwliwcwea”?
PRCS says
Hmm.
Unbelievers.
gravenimage says
PRCS, I don’t think anyone here wants to see the Taliban selll these weapons to other JIhadist thugs. It is just an example that the Taliban implying that they have no way of feeding the people they have conquored is false.
PRCS says
mortimer says
Dec 21, 2021 at 11:13 am
Sell all the weapons Bribed-man left for our most desperate enemies (Islamic terrorists) and then the Taliban can feed the people.
gravenimage says
PRCS, I did indeed read Mortimer’s post–and indicated what I think he meant.
PMK says
Hey Taliban: the US military would not have set foot in your country if you had just handed over Osama and company after 9/11. Fix your own economy. However, if you need a little help: how much bacon can we send you? It’s on us. You’re welcome.
gravenimage says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
Well since that Taliban “minister” had the Islamic gall to declare that the United States must “come and rebuild the Afghan economy.”
We may be sadly ,sure, that traitorous Joe Biden will come and further uphold the Taliban by every way is is able , at the American taxpayer expedience, supported that wicked brutal oppressive. Taliban tyranny
Dishonest and distressing lying Joe will say that by doing so that he’s “actually helping the Afghan people” but in truth he’s only strengthening that tyrannical Taliban rule.
On the second sentence of this essay the word “further” is used regarding Biden helping , America’s enemy ,the Taliban , That is because treasonous Biden has helped the enemy in many ways.
As for example ,he gave Afghanistan to them, he gave them many types of hop grade US military weapons and other equipment and he has already sent them money.
Treasonous , traitorous ,treacherous evil Joe posing , play acting ,as a genuine American President has done much despicable harm on the national level and international level .
Joe Biden is horrendously dangerous and wicked man.
gravenimage says
The US is planning on sending millions in aid to Afghanistan, but is not sending it directly to the Taliban. Not sure how would this work, since virtually every indepedent charity there has pulled out if international or been forced to shut down if domestic. Besides, the Taliban has full dictatorial control there, so any money sent into the country will likely wind up in their hands.
Infidel says
Sure, we’ll consider it… after you outlaw islam in Afghanistan! Up for that?
Ray Jarman says
One can tell the Russians were in Afghanistan since they are quoting the pig farmer, Nikita Khrushchev, who supposedly told Kennedy that, “what’s yours is negotiable but what’s mine is mine.” It is truly sad that Biden/Blinken will give the Taliban what they demand while Americans are stuck with thousands of Afghans who would kill every one of us just like they are giving what is left of the US to the Chinese Communists.
Kenneth J Johnson says
Some nerve. KEN
gregbeetham says
Why didn’t the Taliban get involved helping to build the Afghanistan economy while the US was there instead of doing Islamic banditry?
David M says
Because they are like a parasite that only thinks about killing its host. Once the host is dead the parasite doesn’t know what to do next, it hasn’t thought that far.
Kepha says
One more reason not to vote Democratic: who gave the rest of the world the world that US aid is somehow everyone’s birthright?
Sorry, but we’ve given our economy to Communist China. We’ve bankrupted ourselves trying to save the world from turning itself into a Communist paradise (like Cambodia 1975-78), and then in trying to save it from some strange creature called “Islamic fundamentalism”. We simply don’t have the money. Maybe the Talibs can ask others. Maybe they can sponsor cultural exchanges in which wealthy American radical feminists spend oodles of moolah to spend six months learning to crochet stylish burqas in Qandahar and Herat. Or, the Talibs can get foreign aid from China, which, as everyone knows, gives with no strings attached. Communists wouldn’t lie to you, would they? Or, maybe American LGBTQRSTUVWXTZ’s can pay to take flying lessons on the cliffs of the Hindu Kush?
gravenimage says
Taliban Minister: U.S. Must ‘Come and Rebuild the Afghan Economy’
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The “Afghan economy” was largely based on large amounts of foreign aid and charity from the West–mostly the US.
The Taliban wants all of that money to flow into their coffers to fund violent Jihad–with perhaps a few crumbs to ordinary Afghans to keep them from revolting.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden has already given the Taliban economic support by supplying commodity of those high quality US military weapons now being in the sinister Islamic hands of the Taliban actually occurred because of Biden and his awful orders about withdrawing from Afghanistan the wrong way .
The US military equipment and arms being obtained by the enemy, the Taliban, is because of that other enemy of America, Biden.
Furthermore those thieving Taliban are using US military trucks and other American equipment they has stolen for furthering their brutal cruel harsh Islamic oppression of Sharia law on the people of Afghanistan who trapped and force to exist in the land that they have taken over.
This wasn’t what so many American soldiers had died and many are maimed for life for.
This is worse the sad, terrible tragic. It all comes down to fault of and blame of that death cult of a religion which is Islam.
OLD GUY says
Taliban Minister KISS MY ASS. I thought that Islam was the ultimate of humanity, so prove it and build a country that reflects the wonderful life and great accomplishments to mankind. Yea right.