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Why large scale humanitarian aid to Afghanistan is not an option.

We could be spending the huge cost of battling the people of Afghanistan addressing their human needs but this would undermine the economy which is based on profit.  Food and money must be hoarded in order for it to retain value.  Food and money given away loses its value and undermines a system which is based upon value created by shortages.  Therefore we must kill people who are frustrated because giving anything away undermines the system of exploitation which the ruling class and the super rich have created.  As Marx said, peace is the absence of resistance to socialism.  Once the ruling class stops fighting and starts helping human needs to be met, people will stop resisting.  Hoarding is the principle means of creating value.  Greed in other words.

Who would pay for a system in which livelihoods and sustenance were freely given?  We would all do it together.  Do you need your Maserati and your big house?  Do you need your aircraft carriers and jets so that you can stop the Taliban, and Opium production, which in the latter case you are failing miserably at?  Are these things done to improve our safety in America?  The answer to that is no.  These people in Afghanistan have no jobs.  No means of providing for themselves while we destroy their lands, kill militants, and civilians.  They have no means to provide for themselves.  Is America providing food for the citizens of Afghanistan?  If it is it is news to me and likely insufficient.  It would undermine the Capitalist system of exploitation and false value which is created by keeping things from people who need them. 

Giving things away decreases the value of the economy which the super rich and the stockholders need to achieve their status without having to actually earn it.