I doubt this adds up to more than a billion dollars, which is not a huge amount for a country. The Taliban will still be in trouble and might want to diversify.

I doubt this adds up to more than a billion dollars, which is not a huge amount for a country. The Taliban will still be in trouble and might want to diversify. What is astounding is that the US spent 2 trillion USD over 20 years or about a 100 billion USD per year. This is 5 times more than the estimated 2020 GDP of Afghanistan and most of it went to the US economy (last year it was just shy of 5 billion USD in aid to Afghanistan, most of it security aid - "paying their salaries" as Biden terms it). The issue is the Afghan government. It can't be bypassed, as Afghanistan is a sovereign state. There is little incentive to give more in aid, when you know that corruption might be an issue. So endless occupation it is, instead of a Marshall plan.