Listen now | Noah Smith & Brad DeLong's 30:00 < [Length of Weekly Podcast] < 60:00: Key Insights: The Taliban should go to the World Bank and say: “For 42 years now, mechanized, airborne, and infantry armies and air and drone forces have been driving, walking, and flying over our country, killing us. that has done enormous amounts of damage. We are absolutely dirt poor. We will try as hard as we can: please give us money so that we can start call centers, start simple labor-intensive textile factories, and also beef up our handmade rug businesses so that we can export to pay for what we so desperately need. This is our only chance to make the lives of Afghans in the villages and even in Kabul better. This government would rather rule on the basis of honest, good government and prosperity. But if we cannot do that, others in our coalition will grow in power and rule on the basis of jihad”...
It would profit you to read Anand Gopal's No Good Men Among the Living, if you have not yet done so. And if you have done, well then I reckon it would profit you to read it again.
Money? How about Saudi? Do they have the Econ that can support Afghanistan? Can Pakistan pay for the oil that can keep Kabul running? Is Pakistan ISI riding a tiger? Opium? My experience with morphine is not that of being in the arms of Glod. My experience was it was equivalent to Ibuprofen in pain relief but made me dopey and constipated. My sister in law says it is because of my red hair and Scots Irish inheritance. Quit cold turkey and never looked back. I walk into the pantry full of booze and none of it talks to me. Sad.
What happens to call centers and the rag business when Africa gets its act together?
Had fun with an Indian car insurance scamster today. He hung up on me when I asked him if the insurance company was in India. HaHa.
It would profit you to read Anand Gopal's No Good Men Among the Living, if you have not yet done so. And if you have done, well then I reckon it would profit you to read it again.
Money? How about Saudi? Do they have the Econ that can support Afghanistan? Can Pakistan pay for the oil that can keep Kabul running? Is Pakistan ISI riding a tiger? Opium? My experience with morphine is not that of being in the arms of Glod. My experience was it was equivalent to Ibuprofen in pain relief but made me dopey and constipated. My sister in law says it is because of my red hair and Scots Irish inheritance. Quit cold turkey and never looked back. I walk into the pantry full of booze and none of it talks to me. Sad.
What happens to call centers and the rag business when Africa gets its act together?
Had fun with an Indian car insurance scamster today. He hung up on me when I asked him if the insurance company was in India. HaHa.
They might add that Muad-dib is waiting in the wings if they don't get the aid.