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2023-05-14 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

With its economy in meltdown and malnutrition rising, now Afghanistan is hit by swarms of locusts

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Posted by trailing wife 2023-05-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: Taliban/IEA

Posted by Skidmark 2023-05-14 02:21|| 2023-05-14 02:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Imagine how little I care. We tried to fix this but you wouldn't let us. No longer on my radar.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-05-14 09:13|| 2023-05-14 09:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like an excellent opportunity to get them started on that whole, entire insect diet.

Posted by Cesare 2023-05-14 09:16|| 2023-05-14 09:16|| Front Page Top

#4 We tried to fix this

The original mistake.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-14 09:20|| 2023-05-14 09:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Has the US finally learned that you can't nation build in a place where the inhabitants have no concept of "nation" only tribes?

Probably not.

Posted by EMS Artifact 2023-05-14 10:21|| 2023-05-14 10:21|| Front Page Top

#6 now, they are trying to make us tribal in the US.

Posted by 746 2023-05-14 13:27|| 2023-05-14 13:27|| Front Page Top

#7 "Soylent Green is... bugs!"

Posted by Raj 2023-05-14 13:39|| 2023-05-14 13:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Don’t eat the bugs. Wait for the frogs. They taste like chicken.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-05-14 16:02|| 2023-05-14 16:02|| Front Page Top

#9 Wait for the frogs

How Toad Licking Gets You High

Posted by Skidmark 2023-05-14 16:09|| 2023-05-14 16:09|| Front Page Top

#10 Golly I hope they don't hurt the opium crop. Thankfully the CCP will provide us with fentanyl

Posted by Regular joe 2023-05-14 20:22|| 2023-05-14 20:22|| Front Page Top

#11 Economy in the dumper, starvation, swarms of locusts. Almost sounds biblical.

Posted by JohnQC 2023-05-14 22:27|| 2023-05-14 22:27|| Front Page Top

#12 Yet the US government is still sending $1 billion/year to Afghanistan. That enough money to feed every one of the 40 million 3 grain based meals/day

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