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Well I’m happy a war was fought to liberate them and bring them the joys of deMoCRacy and cheap beer
The war in Afghanistan was lost the moment Bush switched gears to invade Iraq.
He pulled resources out that never went back, and then Obama did the same to fight ISIL. And then Trump pulled even more out just because.
As the years went on, more of the security was offloaded to a corrupt interm government that never quite managed to become self sufficient.
When Trump did his pull out, he got Congress to pull funding. That funding was all that wa keeping the Afghani military going.
Then Biden had to finish the pull out, and he did not stick the landing.
Also bonus fun fact. The Taliban is very likely going to start the world’s first Water War. They’ve been damming and diverting rivers that their neighbors rely on.
Also, not making sure that the Afghan Army had all-female battalions.
Should not be a shock to anyone.
Conservatives gotta conserve.
I feel like the Taliban rule workshopping is something like, “Okay, everyone write down ANYthing that get you off or arouses you. Alright, let’s see… ‘women’s feet,’ yeah, banned. ‘Clothes,’ okay banned. ‘Women singing.’ Y’all some fucked up, but also banned.”
Isn’t beards required because a smooth faced man might cause impure thoughts?
They fear women, but they fear femboys the most
I don’t know about you guys but even as a straigh dude, especially glorious beards can also have me staring and acting unwise…
I say ban all beards.
As another straight dude, I don’t know what you’re talking about. I happen to have unrelated photos at the ready below.
They banned CLOTHES? >.>
What often grates on me is the “We never should have left Afghanistan! Look at what they’re doing to women!!” folks abutting the “We need to respect their customs. These theocratic dictatorships are just like that and there’s nothing we can do” folks who turn a blind eye to all our allies on the Saudi Peninsula, the African coast, and the Indian subcontinent get up to.
You need both in order to execute a new campaign of regime change, because arms and troops have to flow through friendly bases in India or Pakistan to get to Afghanistan. But the end policy only ever seems to be “we permit you to be horrible, so long as you’re committing these horrors on our team”.
Would love for a genuine trans-national feminist movement. But when feminism is a dead letter in our friends in Japan, Poland, and Israel, how the hell is it supposed to penetrate to our enemies in Bad Korea, Afghanistan, and Cuba?
But when feminism is a dead letter in our friends in Japan, Poland, and Israel,
The fuck
We don’t need to respect their customs. We need to respect their people, including their people’s need for emotional healthy relationships which are often in conflict with elements in their cultures that only feel entitled to dominate.
We don’t need to respect their customs.
We do if we want to move military personal through their territory without resistance.
Back when Americans were occupying Afghanistan, we had a seemingly unlimited tolerance for sexual abuse of minors and narco trafficking in the state. We needed the warlords to secure territory and the drug lords to underpin the local economy, in order to contain reactionary religious ideology.
Only after we left did we rediscover our duty to Afghan civilians.
people’s need for emotional healthy relationships which are often in conflict with elements in their cultures that only feel entitled to dominate
I don’t know how else you describe detonating the world’s largest fuel bomb over Nangarhar Province, if you’re not describing it as “entitlement to dominate”.
We weren’t in Afghanistan handing out hugs and flowers. We were killing dissidents en mass in order to suppress revolt.
You’re describing the political reality and I get that, it’s expedient. But that doesn’t mean it is also moral.
No, not at all. But then neither is looting the Afghani Treasury and sanctioning the country into a state of national famine.
Project 2025
Same as Iran now.
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This is taking victim blaming women for the mens’ reactions to their existence to a new level of so stupid it won’t work and will actually have the opposite effect in that people are MORE frustrated, sexually or otherwise.
GOP - “Write that down! WRITE THAT DOWN!”
Pfft, they stole that from Project 2025, Appendix F
“Wait… you just pass a law and women can’t talk? Call the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society. We have the final solution.”
Does the law also apply to Marjorie Taylor-Greene?
Is there a way to make it only apply to Marjorie Taylore-Greene?
Do you think she reads books?
I think she makes sounds and I would like her to stop doing that.
Let’s maybe not call it the final solution.
It’s apt. Apt!
Yes, we know, radical Islam forbids joy of any kind. What a miserable existence.
Man I can’t believe they’ve done it. Who saw this coming
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Once, I talked with a Muslim, and I said that they are afraid of women. He told me that they aren’t afraid of women; they respect them so much that they have to cover them and do all these kinds of things
“We protect them like diamonds!”
“So you protect them like objects?”
Obviously. How else would they protect them from their uncontrollable male urges?
/S in case anyone gets confused…