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Defense One: Taliban Could Lose Power Amid Governance Struggles, Experts Say
The Afghan people could rise up if food shortages, access to medical care and unemployment worsen without international help.
For the Taliban, winning was easy but governing is proving to be harder.
Two months after
the terrorist group seized control of Afghanistan, fighters who have spent the past two decades as insurgents are struggling to govern the country’s 40 million residents, experts say. If the Taliban government fails to provide for citizens’ basic needs, including food, water and medical care, it too could find itself pushed out of power sooner rather than later, said Asfandyar Mir, a senior expert at the United States Institute of Peace.
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WNU Editor: All societies are 9 meals away from a revolution. In the case of Afghanistan much of the population is way past that. If aid is not forthcoming in the coming weeks and with winter quickly approaching, the Taliban will be hard pressed to keep order.
On a side note.
The last Jew has left Afghanistan .... Afghanistan's last Jew departs for Israel after granting wife divorce (The Jerusalem Post).
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