Posted on 08/20/2021 2:28:37 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
America hoped that with enough half-baked social engineering in the half of Afghanistan it controlled, it would eventually be rewarded with victory, and Afghanistan would become the Holland of the Hindu Kush. On Ivy League campuses, students are taught to decry ‘colonialism’, but the Ivy League diplomats who sought to remake Afghanistan in Harvard’s image were among the most ambitious practitioners of it in world history.
So, alongside the billions for bombs went hundreds of millions for gender studies in Afghanistan. According to US government reports, $787 million was spent on gender programs in Afghanistan, but that substantially understates the actual total, since gender goals were folded into practically every undertaking America made in the country.
A recent report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) broke down the difficulties of the project. For starters, in both Dari and Pastho there are no words for ‘gender’. That makes sense, since the distinction between ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ was only invented by a sexually-abusive child psychiatrist in the 1960s, but evidently Americans were caught off-guard. Things didn’t improve from there. Under the US’s guidance, Afghanistan’s 2004 constitution set a 27 percent quota for women in the lower house — higher than the actual figure in America! A strategy that sometimes required having women represent provinces they had never actually been to. Remarkably, this experiment in ‘democracy’ created a government few were willing to fight for, let alone die for.
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I’m sure that flying the rainbow flag in Afghanistan won very few “hearts and minds”!!!!
I like the gender studies video of toilet as art. Now, all they have to do is teach them how to use them. First things first.
“Gender studies” in the mind of a Talibani, is “man is king, woman is naught, and all others shall be beheaded.”
The eye roll from the Afghani gal was comical.
This was not under Biden alone. Almost all of this must have been going on under the younger Bush and even Trump, and of course Obama. The entity called the Deep State or in an earlier time, the permanent bureaucracy, was responsible for this failure.
“ $787 million was spent on gender programs in Afghanistan”
No one can waste our money like a libtard not even close.
Sales pitch to motivate young male Afghan soldiers: "You must fight and die to protect a feminist-controlled government, you disgusting macho pig oppressors."
When push comes to shove, Western Progressives insist upon foisting their attitudes on the poor and unenlightened masses of developing nations just as sure as Victorian-era imperialists did. Worse, they lack the self-awareness to realize it.
I can’t speak to Pashto, but in Farsi/Dari/Persian the pronouns for he, she, it, are all the same. If the crazies were right about the influence of language Iran and Afghanistan should be enlightened utopias when it comes to women’s rights.
forced cultural indoctrination, and it’s not even our culture... it’s a hallucination foisted on us by the RATS
After World War II General Douglas MacArthur dealt with Postwar Japan by demanding Geisha Girl culture must end.
General MacAr ignored the Emperor, the warrior culture, and like Biden and Obama and Bush, focused on what was important: how geisha girls were treated and what they were forced to wear.
Twenty years later and billions of dollars down the drain Japan went back to it’s warrior culture and we left with our tail between our legs....and Japan nuked us.
Oh wait - MacArthur wasn’t a fool - so none of that happened ... Japan became a friend and great trading partner ...
Too bad Biden and his military picks are stupid and WOKE...
Too bad Lloyd Austin and Miley are Marx reading fools.
Yes, yes it did !
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