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To: koan who wrote (478674)	8/28/2021 2:53:24 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	2 Recommendations Recommended By bentway Fiscally Conservative Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543032

In a very real way we've spent 20 years recreating American social division in Afghanistan. The Taliban want to get back at the urban elite by imposing rural stone-age sharia values on the millions of elite urban citizens. Taliban soldiers are from rural regions where people live in tents and mud huts without medical care or other technology. The $2,000 a year the Taliban has paid their soldiers is more than double what they could make farming opium back home. Rural soldier recruits, for both the Taliban and the former government didn't know the names of colors or how to count. Much of the US training of the Afghan military was teaching them how to count and to read and write. The rural Taliban despise the "urban elite" in Kabul and other cities where technology like cell phones, electricity and flush toilets are widely available. They want to impose their backward rural religious culture on the entire nation, just like the Republican Taliban is trying to do in America.

To: koan who wrote (478674)	8/28/2021 4:00:26 PM
From: steve kammerer	3 Recommendations Recommended By Alex MG bentway epicure Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543032

I'm sorry, but if everyone knew this was what would happen, then why didn't everyone stand up over the past 20 years? It would not have been possible for the Taliban to act if everyone was against them. I think what is happening is horrible but we have had the great help of 4 US Presidents and were getting nowhere. I don't know how trapped Biden was by Trump's agreement and any other things he did so I don't know how much of this exodus disaster is his "fault".