The us. Could choose to turn its back on afghanistan, as it did in the 19 nineties after the soviets withdrew from afghanistan. I think that would be very short sighted and i think history shows that that will not work. So we've got humanitarian aid, we've got funding the public sector through organizations like the world bank. We've got loosening up some sanctions. It sounds like, in athese cases, the us. Is going to be involved with afghanistan long after it pulled out troops. Wet.
That’s what the United Nations says is taking place in Afghanistan right now.
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