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re: USAID food for nearly 30,000 hungry kids to be destroyed
Posted on 7/17/25 at 8:05 am to Jetstream 2000
Posted on 7/17/25 at 8:05 am to Jetstream 2000
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I was on an Army helicopter crew in Afghanistan in 2002. One day we had a mission to deliver massive bags of rice to villagers. For this kind of mission we usually had at least one SF guy with us. As we approach the LZ there are a bunch of women and children waiting but along the outside was a group of gun trucks with local warlord guys. SF guy already told us the warlord dudes would there so we just stared them down and then us. We push out rice, women and children start filling bags, we lift off, gun trucks come pulling in scaring off women and children and grabbing all bags we just dropped off and the. They start driving away. I asked the SF dude WTF was that and do we need to go back to tell the shitstains to give the food to people. SF dude said “nope” that was all part of the plan. The rice was always meant to go to the warlord who then in turn used it to control the locals. My takeaway as a young idealistic soldier early in the Afghan war is that we aren’t always the good guys. I will never forget that day.
It's my understanding that this was the arrangement in Somalia, and Ethiopia before that, and Uganda before that...
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Posted on 7/17/25 at 8:06 am to LSUbest
Why would we be providing food for citizens of a country like Pakistan?
While they are not rich, it's a functional country with nuclear weapons and should be able to care for its citizens.
While I don't agree that we should even be sending aid to Afghanistan, at least it's a dysfunctional war-zone. What is Pakistan's excuse?
While they are not rich, it's a functional country with nuclear weapons and should be able to care for its citizens.
While I don't agree that we should even be sending aid to Afghanistan, at least it's a dysfunctional war-zone. What is Pakistan's excuse?
Posted on 7/17/25 at 8:07 am to LSUbest
Does anyone with a lick of critical thinking skills actually think that any money going to those countries was being used as it was supposed to be?
Posted on 7/17/25 at 8:10 am to LSUbest
Why don't they fly it back over here and give it to the deportees as a going away gift?
Posted on 7/17/25 at 8:11 am to LSUbest
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Food intended to feed 27,000 starving children in Afghanistan and Pakistan
I guess now they have to get fe dby their parents or government.
Not my monkeys, not my circus.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 8:44 am to LSUbest
Not our problem!
Posted on 7/17/25 at 8:50 am to SoWhat
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Straight propaganda. Those types of food rations have a 5 year shelf life
I was about to ask that. I know MRE’s last 5 years or better. I can’t imagine we are sending them anything unlike that.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 8:52 am to LSUbest
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expired this month while sitting in a warehouse in Dubai.
Dubai? Oh yes.. the absolute slum of the Arab world that cannot afford to move food when needed.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 9:05 am to LSUbest
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High-energy biscuits, often used for emergency food supplies, typically have a shelf life of 20 years when stored in their original, unopened packaging in a dry, dark place. If the original packaging is removed, but the transparent film remains, they should be consumed within 6 months
This story is bullshite.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 9:08 am to LSUbest
Why not fly it back here? Transport pilots need training time, too.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 9:11 am to HailToTheChiz
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So money gets cut off and then food just sits with no one to donate it or get it elsewhere? OK
Just open the warehouse and put up a sign for free biscuits
They’ll clean it out in a few days
Posted on 7/17/25 at 9:39 am to LSUbest
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closure of the United States’ aid agency.
This is how you know it's propaganda.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 9:40 am to LSUbest
Fake news
Posted on 7/17/25 at 9:41 am to Smeg
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The food went bad in two months?
Kinda like the supplies sitting in warehouses in PR after that hurricane...
Posted on 7/17/25 at 9:51 am to The Maj
food did not go bad. It had the petro based food dye and was declared obsolete.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 9:58 am to LSUbest
I wasn't aware of a starving children problem in Dubai.
Weird.
Weird.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 10:03 am to Privateer 2007
Don’t care….
Posted on 7/17/25 at 11:16 am to LSUbest
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30,000 hungry kids
Are they American kids? No? Then its not our problem.
We need to stop sending financial aid to these countries. If we have a surplus of grains we could send that but the cash needs to end.
I would love to get ethanol out of fuel but the corn lobby would freak out. Maybe we could just use the corn we use for that to feed these savages in the middle east.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 11:31 am to LSUbest
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The truth is already out. Why would you post this?
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Wow. @SenSchumer wants “hungry kids” to eat rotten expired food. That’s Dem compassion for you in a nutshell.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 11:54 am to LSUbest
Those things are designed to be shelf stable for many years. They’re doing this as a publicity stunt.
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