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This is great news. The only chance Afghanistan has to actually become a stable democracy is to have a functioning economy with a better option than opium. Of
by theptip 5y ago
This is great news. The only chance Afghanistan has to actually become a stable democracy is to have a functioning economy with a better option than opium.
Of course, this is a necessary but not sufficient condition. Hopefully they are able to capture the value of these resources instead of seeing that value exported to a more developed country. I fear that with the present level of corruption, it’s more likely that some officials will get rich, and most of this value will be taken by someone else.
- josephcsible 5y agoThere is nothing great about a terrorist group being in control of a trillion dollars' worth of anything.
- trasz 5y agoIndeed, but there’s also the Afghan people there, and their conditions won’t improve without working economy.
- elzbardico 5y agoLet’s not forget that your terrorist group was once called freedom fighters by the US government.
- TheGigaChad 5y agoLie.
- opo 5y agoThe Taliban were not part of the groups that fought against the Soviet occupation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban
- krustyburger 5y agoTry clicking on the articles about any of the current or former leaders and see what they were up to in the 1980s. Just because the organization called the Taliban was officially formed later does not mean that it’s not the same folks who fought the Soviets.