ABC News Discovers Afghanistan Still Exists, Two Decades Later
ABC News's recent piece cites a UNDP report on Afghanistan's struggling communities, highlighting the burdens of returning refugees. What the report, and ABC, conveniently sidestep is that these 'fragile communities' weren't born overnight. They were forged by decades of foreign intervention, including a two-decade U.S. occupation that promised nation-building but delivered a collapsed state and a
humanitarian catastrophe. The source of fragility isn't the returnees; it's the aftermath of what the U.S. and its allies left behind. One might wonder if the 'fragility' was perhaps exacerbated when the U.S. froze billions in Afghan central bank assets in 2022, effectively starving a nation already on its knees. It appears the 'pressure' isn't just returnees, but a deliberate economic
strangulation orchestrated by those who claim to care about the region's stability. Funny how the diagnosis of a problem rarely includes a full accounting of its architects.