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Originally Posted by blankall
Once again I think you're purposely romanticizing the situation in Afghanistan prior to the 1970s to prove a point. Here's a graph of life expectancy in Afghanistan since 1960. It continually goes up:
http://www.indexmundi.com/facts/afgh...tancy-at-birth
At the start of the 1960s it was 30 years old, and has steadily and consistently risen to almost 50 now.
I'm sorry but a proggresive country with a well developed infrastructure does not have a life expectancy of 30 years old. Since the NATO invasion of Afghanistan, they have reached unpresidented rates of education enrolment, women in the work force, life expectancy, etc...
At harsh as it may sound, things are better in Afghanistan now than they have ever been. The idea that Afghanistan was a flourishing and progressive nation prior to Western intervention simply isn't true. |
By our measurement, if the afghans want to live in a profoundly muslim/tribal society where most of them die by 30 who the hell are we to disagree?