The current population of Afghanistan is
38,183,426. In 2018 Nominal GDP was $19.6 billion. The Labor Force was 14
million with 44% working in agriculture. Poverty was 55%. Unemployment was 24%.
Nominal Per Capita GDP was $543.
There are 178 districts in Afghanistan. 59 districts are under Taliban
control. The remaining 119 districts remain contested and controlled by neither the Afghan government nor the rebels
as of.6/24/19. The Taliban controls 33% of Afghanistan.
Negotiations between the
Taliban and the Afghan government include making the Taliban an official
political party. Allowing hostile forces to remain is usually a bad idea. It
has been tried in Israel since 1948.
The Taliban need to be
defeated by the Afghan army with some help from their neighbors like Pakistan
and Islamic Fundamentalism needs to be outlawed in Afghanistan and offenders
need to be jailed or executed for capital murders committed over the past 40
years. I see no alternative to resolve the Afghan problem with the Taliban. The
Afghan government will continue to be outspent as long as the Taliban has
control over the opium trade.
The Afghan government
must seize all opium trade and limit it to medical use for morphine and other
hospice-oriented drugs.
I think we need to be
tough with the Taliban. I like the way
Bruce Willis negotiated with the Alien Arms Dealers in the movie “The 5th
Element”.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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