afghanistan progress

The Way The World Works (continuing series)
It's historically been one of the poorer countries on Earth, and under the five yrs of Taliban rule so rudely interrupted by the U.S. in 2001, individual rights in Afghanistan were brutalized. On the other hand, the Quranic gov't was at least honest and kept the neighborhoods safe. On the other-other hand, the current gov't is a cesspool of corruption (both grand and petty); the opium trade is bigger than ever; and the divide between the almost-all-poor and the few super-rich now dwarfs the inequality in, say, Brazil. Progress! Washington Post