Comment by emernic

The framing of the article (like many others related to the Afghanistan withdrawal) seems backwards. It implies that the "international community" (i.e. western governments and aid organizations) is engaged in a struggle to save children that are starving or missing out on health treatment due to the vaguely-defined "chaos of the Taliban takeover". In fact, it is western governments and aid organizations that decided to withdraw aid out of aversion (to some extent legally enforced by western governments) to dealing with the de-facto government of Afghanistan (the Taliban). Withdrawing foreign aid after spending decades creating a system entirely dependent on it is not "struggling to save starving babies", it's making a choice _not_ to save starving babies.