Stop the Economic War on Afghanistan

Intensifying economic warfare against Afghanistan will achieve nothing except to impoverish, starve, and displace more people.

Wazhma Sadat reviews the destructive effects of Taliban sanctions on Afghanistan:

Economic sanctions against the Taliban, in reality, function as economic sanctions against the people of Afghanistan.

Sadat makes a compelling case that Taliban sanctions in the past and today have imposed great hardship on the population. The best thing that the U.S. could do for the people of Afghanistan is to lift sanctions and release the assets that Washington seized after the Taliban took control. Intensifying economic warfare against Afghanistan will achieve nothing except to impoverish, starve, and displace more people. Inflicting collective punishment on tens of millions of innocent people is always the wrong thing to do, and doing it to a country whose people have suffered as much as the people of Afghanistan have is unusually cruel.