Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Afghanistan Out of Control
This liberation stuff is hard. The Taliban is back in many areas. Warlords and druglords control many areas. But wait! There's more! Here's a snapshot of Afghanistan today:
- 1000 civilians dead in the past year, including 600 aid and election workers
- Doctors Without Borders has pulled out altogether (even though they stayed IN during the Taliban rule) because of safety concerns.
- Some old law forbidding married women and unmarried women from attending school together still exists and was recently enforced by President Karzai (and remember, these "women" are married at very young ages), resulting in two to three thousand girls getting kicked out of school.
- Afghanistan received twice as much money from heroin trafficking last year than it did from U.S. assistance.
There's soooo much more. Read all about it here.
