Afghanistan Vs. West Virginia

The other day I was pondering how the geographic outlines of Afghanistan and West Virginia are similar. What do you think? (If you slept through geography class, West Virginia is the one on the bottom.)

Like I said - similar, but not identical.

Well, how about size? Afghanistan is 252,071 square miles, while West Virginia is 24,038 - less than 1/10.

How about population? Afghanistan has about 39 million inhabitants, while West Virginia has about 1.8 million - less than 1/20.

So West Virginia is a LOT smaller by those measures.

But how about representation in the US Congress?

West Virginia has two US Senators and three Representatives, more or less standard for a small state.

But by some accounts Afghanistan (the part of the population which wants to escape to the US, that is) now has numerous voices in "our" Congress - at least 46 Senators and a large number of Representatives. That's a lot of clout, wouldn't you say? FAR MORE than that of little ol' WV. Why do you suppose that is?

The US looked at Afghanistan as a strategic asset, a lynchpin in "our" strategy to control the World Island of Eurasia. It also has vast, plunderable mineral wealth and is a potential transit route for gas, petroleum, and other goods and services. All that appears lost to us now, but are TPTB really ready to let it go?

West Virginia has been a backwater of the US. It had a vast, plunderable resource (coal), but the US says it doesn't need that anymore. TPTB in the US are and have been in the process of abandoning the people of WV in a manner not unlike those we're abandoning in Afghanistan. True, there's no Taliban, al-Qaeda, or ISIS (that we know of) in WV who might start chopping off people's heads, but we're tossing them to the wolves in nearly every other domestic sense of that term. As a result, residents of WV have among the lowest average incomes of any state.

And now we're "worried" the Taliban will stop the production of opium, destroying the livelihood of many of that country's farmers:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/amid-sanctions-taliban-expected-double-down-drug-trafficking

But isn't that just like America - telling a dirt poor nation which possesses some of the richest deposits of coveted minerals in the world they must continue to cultivate drug precursors for the global markets or risk starvation?

When is it going to sink in that the US is NOT a force for good in the world? Will we ever wake up to the fact that people in faraway lands who would rather support us instead of their neighbors are destroying their own nations and NOT building an "American Dream" for themselves?