The Quincy Institute’s Adam Weinstein spoke out Nov. 21 on the situation in Afghanistan, in an interview with the Turkish English-language TV network, TRT World, published Nov. 12: “The international community is actively creating a preventable famine. Food scarcity now exists country-wide and people are living on stale bread and tea. Mass starvation will soon follow....
“The cessation of direct foreign aid to the government is happening because few countries want to be seen as helping the Taliban…. Attaching conditions to food aid essentially pins the international community against the Taliban in a game of chicken using human lives as collateral. It is grotesque.”
