Remember when Americans cared about the fate of Afghani civilians?
If you blinked you would have missed it. It happened when Biden committed to withdrawing from Afghanistan and ending the war. After 20 years of war and occupation in which 47,600 civilians were killed and more than double that number injured, the western media suddenly cared about Afghani civilians.
Then we pulled out of Afghanistan, and the western media forgot about those civilians.

Did the suffering in Afghanistan end? Nope, it increased.

When President Joe Biden decided to withdraw the U.S. military from Afghanistan last year, much of America's news media came down on him like a ton of bricks. Republicans piled on, calling the withdrawal an “unmitigated disaster.”
But getting out was the right move.

In fact, the real mistake was the opposite: The Biden administration did not end the war, but continued it by other means, which are turning out to be more violent and destabilizing. The economic sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies are causing widespread, severe hunger in this desperately poor country.
Unless those sanctions are soon reversed, it is estimated that more people will die from the economic impact of sanctions over the next year than the number who died in 20 years of war.

It's hard to imagine a disaster hitting Afghanistan that was bigger than our invasion of the country, but that it what we are looking at. Tens of thousands of Afghanis are about to die.

As many as 95 percent of the country’s 38 million people don’t have enough to eat or money to buy the food.

Shelley Thakral, a spokeswoman for the World Food Program, said that food prices in Afghanistan rose nearly 40 percent over the last eight months. The WFP has spent $1 billion feeding millions of Afghans this year but needs another $1.6 billion, Thakral added.
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A Human Rights Watch report released Thursday said that since January, about 13,000 newborns have died from malnutrition and hunger-related diseases in Afghanistan and 3.5 million children need nutritional support.

13,000 infants! All of them dead from something preventable, like hunger.
People are having to make horrific choices.

Fortunately this can all be stopped for just $1.6 Billion. If only Afghanistan had $1.6 Billion to spare. Oh wait! They did have that and more...before we stole it from them.

There is nothing to eat: Most of your family’s crop failed last year, your livestock are gone. And now your child, a toddler, is sick. There is nowhere to take her.

You are among 23 million people unable to eat every day in your country, and this year you may join the nine million people facing outright famine.

Where is the cash? A foreign superpower, with massive wealth of its own, has taken it and plans to distribute half to some of its own people while your family starves in front of you.

The cruelty of this policy is incomprehensible and obscured by the bureaucratic language of executive orders. Yet this is current U.S. policy toward Afghanistan.
...That’s unlucky for anyone trying to stay alive in Afghanistan, since the Taliban are a designated terrorist organization targeted by economic sanctions dating back to their previous rule. Moreover, the U.S. is unable or unwilling to explain whether these old sanctions apply to any Taliban regime or individuals previously named.

The Biden Administration has decided to split $7 billion in frozen Afghanistan funds in the U.S. banking system to compensate 9/11 victims.
No Afghani was on the planes on 9/11. Even 9/11 families know this is wrong.

All over America right now, people are signaling their virtue through outrage over Russia's crimes in Ukraine. Those are real crimes, but there is little that we can do about it short of risking WWIII.

At the exact same time America is actively causing suffering and death on a scale that dwarfs that happening in Ukraine. Even more importantly, we have all the power we need to stop tens of thousands of Afghani children from dying, but we won't. Why? Because Americans don't really care about the people of Afghanistan or of Ukraine. It's just fashionable to pretend like we do.
And this doesn't even address our complicity in the genocide in Yemen.