By all accounts, starvation looms for millions of Afghans. The combination of the withdrawal of American aid, which represented a huge proportion of the country’s GDP, the freezing of assets, and a drought is creating a humanitarian disaster. What should America do?
There are two massive obstacles to an American aid program:
- The Taliban want a godly Afghanistan, not a prosperous one. Mass starvation simply isn’t a big deal to them. If Allah wills it, who are they to argue?
- Afghanistan is a client state of Pakistan, which has devolved into a vassal of China. As a result, any aid to the Afghans, no matter how it is structured, ultimately helps subsidize Pakistan and China.
The Chinese are fond of reminding people that they are a large and powerful country. They typically do this by bullying smaller countries. It is time for them–not America–to step up to the plate and actually do some good outside their own boundaries.