In Afghanistan, families are forced to sell children to survive. USAID cuts will be devastating. : afghanistan

So we take money from American citizens via taxes, ship them over seas to a country that hates us and is governed by terrorist fundamentalist Muslims, and cross our fingers and hope the money/resources makes it to poor people?

Why does the responsibility always lay at the feet of the American taxpayer? Why doesn't Europe send them some money? Or maybe India (superpower 2025)? Or maybe the Afghanistan people themselves? If they'd been willing to fight for their country instead of rolling over for the Taliban maybe they wouldn't be in this position.

America: If you get involved in another country's affairs you're an evil imperialist empire.

Also America: If you don't get involved in another country's affairs you're a big selfish meanie.

I'd rather be the big selfish meanie.

The selling children citation is from 2021

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/01/asia/afghanistan-child-marriage-crisis-taliban-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

Hmm.

No one is asking why selling your kids is an option. I understand the concept of not comprehending what you'd do in true desperation, but selling your kids into s*x slavery is a no. I tell myself I'd never beg, but God knows I could be starving and poor and do worse things. The guy doesn't sound happy about it.

But selling your children. I feel like I'd be murdering people for money first.

!tldr

wonder who withdrew from afghanistan

>Maybe in an extremely impoverished country, banning half the population from working outside the home is a bad idea.

So like, how it had been in every country up until the end of WWII?

There's no way journoids whrote this shit with a straight face

Redditors once again whining about capitalism.

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