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Let’s Go Brandon! A million Afghan kids estimated to starve to death this winter!
Posted on 12/5/21 at 8:59 am
Posted on 12/5/21 at 8:59 am
New York Times
Great job Joe Biden and especially you Antony Blinken, you cowardly little worm. How that mother fricker hasn’t killed himself yet is beyond me. That’s 10,782 kids a day dying. That’s way worse than North Korea for example. I’m sorry, Blinken has to be charged with treason by the next Republican in office and get the full penalty for it. If his kids have any dignity, they will change their last names and never speak to their father again. Absolutely disgraceful from our joke of a government.
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SHAH WALI KOT, Afghanistan — One by one, women poured into the mud brick clinic, the frames of famished children peeking out beneath the folds of their pale gray, blue and pink burqas.
Many had walked for more than an hour across this drab stretch of southern Afghanistan, where parched earth meets a washed-out sky, desperate for medicine to pump life back into their children’s shrunken veins. For months, their once-daily meals had grown more sparse as harvests failed, wells ran dry and credit for flour from shopkeepers ran out.
Now as the crisp air grew colder, reality was setting in: Their children might not survive the winter.
“I’m very afraid, this winter will be even worse than we can imagine,” said Laltak, 40, who like many women in rural Afghanistan goes by only one name.
Nearly four months since the Taliban seized power, Afghanistan is on the brink of a mass starvation that aid groups say threatens to kill a million children this winter — a toll that would dwarf the total number of Afghan civilians estimated to have been killed as a direct result of the war over the past 20 years.
While Afghanistan has suffered from malnutrition for decades, the country’s hunger crisis has drastically worsened in recent months. This winter, an estimated 22.8 million people — more than half the population — are expected to face potentially life-threatening levels of food insecurity, according to an analysis by the United Nations World Food Program and Food and Agriculture Organization. Of those, 8.7 million people are nearing famine — the worst stage of a food crisis.
Such widespread hunger is the most devastating sign of the economic crash that has crippled Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power. Practically overnight, billions of dollars in foreign aid that propped up the previous Western-backed government vanished and U.S. sanctions on the Taliban isolated the country from the global financial system, paralyzing Afghan banks and impeding relief work by humanitarian organizations.
Across the country, millions of Afghans — from day laborers to doctors and teachers — have gone months without steady or any incomes. The prices of food and other basic goods have soared beyond the reach of many families. Emaciated children and anemic mothers have flooded into the malnutrition wards of hospitals, many of those facilities bereft of medical supplies that donor aid once provided.
Compounding its economic woes, the country is confronting one of the worst droughts in decades, which has withered fields, starved farm animals and dried irrigation channels. Afghanistan’s wheat harvest is expected to be as much as 25 percent below average this year, according to the United Nations. In rural areas — where roughly 70 percent of the population lives — many farmers have given up cultivating their land.
Now, as freezing winter weather sets in, with humanitarian organizations warning that a million children could die, the crisis is potentially damning to both the new Taliban government and to the United States, which is facing mounting pressure to ease the economic restrictions that are worsening the crisis.
“We need to separate the politics from the humanitarian imperative,” said Mary-Ellen McGroarty, the World Food Program’s country director for Afghanistan. “The millions of women, of children, of men in the current crisis in Afghanistan are innocent people who are being condemned to a winter of absolute desperation and potentially death.”
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The humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Afghanistan comes as hunger has steadily risen around the world in recent years, driven by the coronavirus pandemic, conflict and climate-related shocks.
Thirty percent more Afghans faced crisis-level food shortages in September and October compared with the same period last year, according to the United Nations. In the coming months, the number of Afghans in crisis is expected to hit a record high.
“It was never this bad,” said Sifatullah Sifat, the head doctor at the Shamsul Haq clinic on the outskirts of Kandahar city, where malnutrition cases have doubled in recent months. “Donors are shipping in medicine, but it’s still not enough.”
By 10 a.m. each morning, a throng of mothers carrying skeletal children masses in the hallway of the malnutrition unit.
Inside an examination room in October, Zarmina, 20, cradled her 18-month-old son while her 3-year-old daughter stood behind her, clutching her blue burqa. Since the Taliban seized power and her husband’s work as a day laborer dried up, her family has survived on mostly bread and tea — meals that left her children’s stomachs gnawing with hunger.
“They are crying to have food. I wish I could bring them something, but we have nothing,” said Zarmina, who is six months pregnant and severely anemic.
Zarmina’s son had grown frail after weeks of diarrhea. He stared blankly at the wall as a nurse wrapped a color-coded measuring band used to diagnose malnutrition around his rail-thin arm, stopping at the color red: Severe malnourishment.
As the nurse told Zarmina that he needed to go to the hospital for treatment, another mother barged into the room and collapsed on the floor, demanding help for her infant daughter.
“It’s been almost one week, I can’t get medicine for her,” she pleaded.
The nurse begged her to wait: Her daughter’s malnutrition was considered only moderate.
Great job Joe Biden and especially you Antony Blinken, you cowardly little worm. How that mother fricker hasn’t killed himself yet is beyond me. That’s 10,782 kids a day dying. That’s way worse than North Korea for example. I’m sorry, Blinken has to be charged with treason by the next Republican in office and get the full penalty for it. If his kids have any dignity, they will change their last names and never speak to their father again. Absolutely disgraceful from our joke of a government.
This post was edited on 12/5/21 at 9:01 am
Posted on 12/5/21 at 9:01 am to OMLandshark
That sounds terrible. Maybe next time a republican is elected president you can get him to take over that country and make the feeding of Afghan children your top priority. They are always so grateful for outside help.
Posted on 12/5/21 at 9:04 am to OMLandshark
Afghanistan was 4 months ago, 5 months ago!
Posted on 12/5/21 at 9:07 am to OMLandshark
Our government is the absolute worst
Posted on 12/5/21 at 9:07 am to OMLandshark
That's incredibly sad and depressing, but what exactly are we supposed to do? The US can barely take care of itself right now, how can we take care of the rest of the world?
Posted on 12/5/21 at 9:08 am to OMLandshark
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Absolutely disgraceful from our joke of a government.
There is a God. And He sees all this. Woe to you that you should cause these little ones to sin. I would add woe to you that you should allow these little ones to starve.
America, you abandoned these Afghan children. There is a day of reckoning coming to you. You kill babies in the womb. You abandon others to starve. You give their parents (especially their mothers) hope for a better life, and then you pull the rug out from under them.
God does NOT like it when you abandon the poor to starvation.
Elections have consequences.
This post was edited on 12/5/21 at 9:14 am
Posted on 12/5/21 at 9:11 am to Zarkinletch416
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America, you abandoned these Afghan children. There is a day of reckoning coming to you. You kill babies in the womb. You abandon others to starve. You give their parents (especially their mothers) hope for a better life, and then you pull the rug out from under them.
Wait a damn minute here. Now every baby that starves under Taliban rule is America’s fault? Sorry guys, y’all have gone full insane now.
Posted on 12/5/21 at 9:12 am to OMLandshark
This issue will be repeated in most third world countries over the next 1-2 years.
What the idiot Covidites didn’t calculate (or did they) is the worldwide impact of shutting down the US (and other leading export countries) production facilities.
We feed ourselves first and then help feed the world, but when we shut down our production, it sent ripples through to the supply chain available in the US and hence to other countries, drastically lowering their access to food and supplies.
In their effort to “save ourselves” against a virus with a 99.6% survival rate, the Covidites doomed millions of third world inhabitants to death by starvation.
Let’s go Brandon! :knight3:
What the idiot Covidites didn’t calculate (or did they) is the worldwide impact of shutting down the US (and other leading export countries) production facilities.
We feed ourselves first and then help feed the world, but when we shut down our production, it sent ripples through to the supply chain available in the US and hence to other countries, drastically lowering their access to food and supplies.
In their effort to “save ourselves” against a virus with a 99.6% survival rate, the Covidites doomed millions of third world inhabitants to death by starvation.
Let’s go Brandon! :knight3:
Posted on 12/5/21 at 9:13 am to Oates Mustache
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That's incredibly sad and depressing, but what exactly are we supposed to do
It’s too late now, but here’s what we can do: not forget what we did in Afghanistan. But then we have retards like Mo Geaux who don’t see why Afghanistan is any big deal and gets pissed off when anyone brings it up. Let’s not forget this little girl who will likely survive the winter but will have a worse fate than most the kids brought up in that article: Twitter
Posted on 12/5/21 at 9:13 am to Zarkinletch416
Woe to you for thinking for a minute our prescence over there is welcomed.
Posted on 12/5/21 at 9:14 am to OMLandshark
While I am sympathetic, it is their problem. We can't be expected to feed the entire world; especially countries who hate us and want us exterminated.
Having kid after kid after kid when they can't feed them is idiocy. Maybe they need a new hobby.
I'm sure I am going to get clobbered but I ceased caring about the world's problems a long time ago.
Having kid after kid after kid when they can't feed them is idiocy. Maybe they need a new hobby.
I'm sure I am going to get clobbered but I ceased caring about the world's problems a long time ago.
Posted on 12/5/21 at 9:15 am to tigger42day
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What the idiot Covidites didn’t calculate (or did they) is the worldwide impact of shutting down the US (and other leading export countries) production facilities.
Yeah, back last March my first question was “Wait we can’t do that. What about the supply lines? Disrupting those can easily kill as many people as we’re trying to save from Covid.” But the response was “Hey don’t worry about it.” No telling what has been going on in Africa since the pandemic began and China has been robbing them blind.
This post was edited on 12/5/21 at 9:16 am
Posted on 12/5/21 at 9:18 am to OMLandshark
Where is the taliban leadership on this. It's their Tarbaby now. UN , where are they hiding now ?
Posted on 12/5/21 at 9:22 am to TBoy
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Now every baby that starves under Taliban rule is America’s fault?
You got a rare upvote from me.
Has someone stolen your password?
Posted on 12/5/21 at 9:24 am to SantaFe
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Where is the taliban leadership on this. It's their Tarbaby now. UN , where are they hiding now ?
The UN ? Just like democrats only care about things that give them political points and helps their bosses gain more control over everyone.
Posted on 12/5/21 at 9:27 am to TBoy
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Now every baby that starves under Taliban and Biden’s rule is America’s fault?
You voted for this. I would imagine that the leftist filth running the Democratic Party enjoy the thought of starving children. They probably think of them as really late term abortions.
Posted on 12/5/21 at 9:32 am to SantaFe
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Where is the taliban leadership on this
Believe it or not but they’ve been meeting with foreign governments in an attempt to develop relations and to get the economic sanctions lifted. They’ve been cut off from their money courtesy of the West.
Posted on 12/5/21 at 9:33 am to TrueTiger
We gave the afghan military billions of $ in equipment and years of training. When the time came to fight for their country and maintain their freedom, they didn’t have the will to fight. The US could have continued to provide air support to stave off the inevitable but as the Taliban had done for 20 years they would just wait longer for us to leave. If they don’t have the conviction or the courage to fight for their country, what the hell are we supposed to do. Continue putting US service men in harms way? Continue printing more money to give to them as our cities and infrastructure crumble?
This post was edited on 12/5/21 at 9:35 am
Posted on 12/5/21 at 9:40 am to OMLandshark
I guess we should send aid. How many Billions do you want to send? 20? 100?
Maybe Boebert can draw up the resolution...
Maybe Boebert can draw up the resolution...
Posted on 12/5/21 at 9:43 am to TBoy
quote:I thought the left loved the poor and crusaded on behalf of the weak and vulnerable??? Seems as soon as it’s politically expedient we’re supposed to pretend these problems on the other side of the globe don’t exist?!? Where is your compassion now??
an get him to take over that country and make the feeding of Afghan children your top priority. They are always so grateful for outside help.
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