Public schooling versus CM schools

[Josh]

Cattle feed is mostly hay (much of it grown via pivot irrigation), with finishing with corn right slaughter.

[Ken]

Afghanistan has lots of nuclear families and little divorce yet is incredibly poor because it is still largely a medieval society, especially in the rural areas.

And yet drove out the world’s greatest military power.

More accurately, the place was so primitive and backward economically that it proved impossible for the US to convert into a modern nation (nation-building). And propping the place up proved to be unsustainable long-term.

It was a project that was doomed to fail from the very beginning. It was only the hubris of the Bush Administration that that got us there in the first place. And the cowardice of the Obama Administration that kept us there instead of pulling the plug a decade earlier like they should have.

[Judas Maccabeus]

Afghanistan has lots of nuclear families and little divorce yet is incredibly poor because it is still largely a medieval society, especially in the rural areas.

And yet drove out the world’s greatest military power.

Three times.

[Josh]

Afghanistan is even capable of producing its own food and engaging in trade with its neighbours (notably China).

[Ken]

Afghanistan is even capable of producing its own food and engaging in trade with its neighbours (notably China).

Um.........

https://www.wfp.org/emergencies/afghanistan-emergency

15.8 million people face crisis levels of food insecurity: 1 in 3 Afghans do not know where their next meal will come from

A humanitarian crisis of incredible proportions has grown even more complex and severe since the Taliban took control. Job losses, lack of cash and soaring prices are creating a new class of hungry people. A total 15.8 million Afghans are not consuming enough food. The country is on the brink of economic collapse, with the local currency at an all-time low and food prices on the rise.

Acute malnutrition is above emergency thresholds in 25 out of 34 provinces, and is expected to worsen, with almost half of children under 5 and a quarter of pregnant and breastfeeding women needing life-saving nutrition support in the next 12 months. As winter approaches, getting food into the country and prepositioning it at strategic locations is now the most urgent task for WFP. Once the snow sets in, roads will be cut off and communities stranded. This lean season, WFP food assistance will be the only lifeline for many Afghan families.

[Josh]

Odd. So when it was a violent war zone, it had more food security?

[Soloist]

Odd. So when it was a violent war zone, it had more food security?

Naturally. We supplied it. We of course don’t want to supply the “terrorist” group we supported against Russia.

[Josh]

It will be interesting to see if an area that supposedly has “food insecurity” has a lower population in 20-30 years. Somehow. I doubt it will.

[Ken]

Odd. So when it was a violent war zone, it had more food security?

Oddly it turns out that isolationist governance by uneducated fundamentalists doesn't bring prosperity.

[Ken]

Odd. So when it was a violent war zone, it had more food security?

Naturally. We supplied it. We of course don’t want to supply the “terrorist” group we supported against Russia.

The Taliban and Mujahidin are not the same thing.

The Taliban were not formed until 1994, five years after the end of the Afghan war against the USSR. And while they drew from some elements of the former Mujahidin that fought the Soviets, many Mujahidin leaders were opposed to them. Essentially the Taliban rose to power (with the help of Pakistan) in the wake of the Afghan Civil War in the early 1990s that enveloped the country AFTER exit of the USSR.