1) warlords are active again

2) opium cultivation is once again booming

3) a man hand-picked by Washington is president; both the president and several of his ministers are actually Afghan-Americans

4) countless homes and other buildings have been destroyed by US bombing

5) thousands of innocent civilians have been killed as well as thousands of others engaged in combat who were only defending the country they lived in from a foreign invasion; not one of the many dead has been shown to have had any connection to the September 11 attack; most of the so-called "terrorists" at the training camps had come to Afghanistan to aid the Taliban in their civil war, a religious mission, none of Washington's concern

6) crime and violence are once again a danger in the cities' neighborhoods, which had been made safer by the Taliban

7) the country is occupied by foreign troops who often treat the population badly; US forces seize Afghans and take them away without explanation and keep them incommunicado indefinitely; some are sent to the 21st century's Devils Island in Guantanamo Base, Cuba

8) in Kabul, the number of children suffering from malnutrition is almost double what it was before the American invasion(4)

9) the quality of women's lives has very slightly improved, but is still far below what women enjoyed under the government the United States overthrew in the 1980-1990s