OPINION

Winter is on the way in Afghanistan

Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 10/11/2021

» The first snow of the winter will reach Kabul any day now, and the death rate will start to climb: mostly children, at first, but it will not really be the cold that kills them. The cold will only finish the work that malnutrition began months or years ago -- but the other cause of their deaths will be a different kind of freeze.