Posted on 09/06/2005 11:13:40 AM PDT by pookie18
Across Afghanistan, good news for farmers, and for the rest of the population:
The country's farms are alive again. Seven years of drought had left fields monochrome plains of brown dust. But good snows and rains have many Afghans seeing color again--seas of golden wheat undulate in the breeze, green apricot trees are plump with yellow fruit, melons of every hue dot fields.
It is much-needed relief for impoverished farmers as well as the estimated 3.4 million Afghans who have been relying on food handouts from overburdened international aid groups.
One wheat farmer sees the end of the drought as a sign that God is pleased with the country's fledgling democracy.
"Since the fall of the Taliban, Afghanistan has started to recover from the drought and people's lives have been getting better," said Fazah Rahman, 36.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
It's NOT Bush's fault!
Hmmm, $20/acre vs $3000/acre?.... My money is on the poppies.
That was the first "another vietnam" according to the MSM. Till Iraq came along, then they ignored Afghanistan, the country that all the great empires of Europe could never conquer.
They better hope for another war because it's blindingly obvious that Iraq is heading the right direction as well.
One wheat farmer sees the end of the drought as a sign that God is pleased with the country's fledgling democracy.
I'm sure he is.
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