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| Afghanistan: Just walk away |
| 2017-06-24 |
| [American Thinker] Our involvement in Afghanistan is untenable because the country is untenable. No matter what is done, Afghanistan will fail because of its galloping population growth. When the U.S. became involved in 2001, the country had a population of 20.5 million. Now it is 34.4 million, up nearly 70 percent. In the intervening 16 years, the U.S. spent about one trillion dollars and 2,000 lives in stabilizing Afghanistan. All the stability and free food provided just created a perfect breeding environment for the natives. The population growth rate has settled at 3.0 percent per annum. At that rate, in another 16 years, there will be 55.2 million Afghans, most of whom will need imported grain to keep body and soul together. The Afghani proclivity to breed will only be curbed by starvation. That will happen at some stage because, even if we wanted to underwrite that population expansion, getting the necessary quantity of food into the country will become more and more difficult. Perhaps that situation is beginning now. The U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization has reported that 8.4 million Afghans are in an acute food insecurity crisis. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 According to Wikipedia, over 5 million Afghan refugees have been repatriated from Pakistan and Iran since 2002, providing the first 25 points of the 70% population increase. Pakistan still has an estimated 1.7 million Afghan refugees remaining, while Iran has an estimated 2.5 million. It should be noted, as the Wikipedia article does, that Afghan women who grew up in Iran adopted Iranian attitudes toward family planning and birth control, and have brought that back with them along with their Iranian educations. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-06-24 16:49 |
| #7 'JUST WALK AWAY': what the Lord Humungous said to the inhabitants of the oil-rich village in ROADWARRIOR! |
| Posted by: borgboy 2017-06-24 14:46 |
| #6 Can't walk away from all that opium money. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-06-24 13:17 |
| #5 Problem is, by their analysis, Afghanistan should already be depopulated. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2017-06-24 11:22 |
| #4 BTW, it looks like the Russians might have depleted some of the Afghan population looking at the graph. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-06-24 10:24 |
| #3 According to the UN, conflicts and weather-related shocks are the main drivers of food insecurity. There's that climate change thingee again that the UN is pushing. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-06-24 10:22 |
| #2 Culture is in a petri dish or culturing tube. Afghanistan is black mold on the basement wall... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2017-06-24 09:30 |
| #1 Our involvement in Afghanistan is untenable because the country is untenable. No matter what is done, Afghanistan will fail because of its FIFY |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-06-24 07:40 |