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Interesting. Though it would be fascinating to know how much of these new areas farmed are marginal land only made useful through American fertilizers and equipment which will no longer by available. Because if they were good agricultural lands before then they would have been in use already...

When we arrived in Afghanistan there were about 21 million people living there. As of now there are about 40 million. An extra 19 million mouths to feed is not insignificant. However the birth rate may have changed, (and after investigating it looks as if I previously may have been wrong on...

The reason that Afghanistan is starving is that while we occupied it we exported massive amounts of food to them. Before that their population was just at a level that domestic agriculture and what imports they could afford was capable of sustaining. But with the availability of American food in...

Something to keep in mind on Afghanistan is that it doesn't produce enough food to sustain its population. Before we invaded they had only about as many people as they could feed but after that we started shipping in massive amounts of food and the population exploded. Which means that unless...

It was always obvious that the Taliban were going to take over the moment we left. The problem is that we left so much of our equipment behind to used against us in the future.