Posted on 08/22/2021 12:54:30 PM PDT by C19fan
The world watched this week as images of women were painted over on beauty parlours in Kabul. The symbolism was impossible to miss. After twenty years of limited — though steadily increasing — freedoms, the concealment of the women of Kabul, and Afghanistan, had resumed.
After the Taliban announced that it will respect women’s rights “in accordance with Islamic law” on Wednesday, a woman was reportedly killed for not wearing a burqa and another was beaten to death in front of her four children for refusing to cook for them. Women for the Taliban are the first target for enforced isolation, silencing and extreme violence. Women are central to the Taliban’s theocratic vision. They are the first to be subjugated. If they can coerce, terrorise and control women, the rest of the population will follow.
Afghan women were central to the US policy too — an astonishing US government report from February 2021 shows just how central. The Americans pursued a strategy of “gender mainstreaming” in the country, a suite of policies that aimed to empower Afghan women. Quotas were introduced that guaranteed a set number of women in parliament; rural councils, likewise, were balanced by gender. The US sent “gender advisors” to the country; they attempted to integrate women into the Afghan army; training centres, housing, child care centres, gyms, dining facilities, and bathrooms were all built for women. And Afghan men were enlisted to the gender mainstreaming cause — US programs gave “trainings to 1,105 Afghan men in which they could discuss their own gender roles and examine male attitudes that are harmful to women.” One initiative was called the “National Masculinity Alliance”.
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This is how we win every battle yet lose the war.
The U.S. Army did more for women’s rights in Afghanistan than every feminist ever spawned. Now they find their voices?
Feminists can make Afghani women as miserable as they are.
Jamaicans Demand Removal of Pride Flag from US Embassy
Did those Muslim Afghan women ever reflect on the irony that it was the sacrifice of mostly Christian, white soldiers that guarenteed them their human rights?
women threw off their burqae 20 years ago,
but the UN and the CLINTONS decided they must wear them.
and they did.
THE WAY TO FREEDOM WAS TO ALLOW WOMEN TO RUN ALL OFFICES
OF AFGHANISTAN AFTER 9/11. ALL.
Americans lives were ruined for this.
Yeah, that'll motivate young men.
Did the Troop based in Afghanistan even have bullets or just rifles for show?
It is indeed elitist arrogance.
Cultures only change over centuries, and according to their underlying history, religious and belief systems. American central-planners, blinded by military power, technology and especially massive debt and printed money, believed they could achieve any change in human behavior. This is also classic Marxist thinking.
I believe we are seeing the apogee of Progressive social-engineering in the United States. It will first fail overseas, and then domestically. Failure domestically will take longer, and cause massive pain and dislocation.
Well, on the bright side, we can count our WOKE success in Jamaica where the Jamaicans have happily accepted the USA jamming perversity down their throats...NOT!
Sing it, Bobby!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqVy6eRXc7Q
You have to start off easy: Women are people, too.
Every.single.photo I see of those US soldiers jumping from helicopters or manning the walls of the embassy or airport seem to be young, white men.
Why they want risk their lives in a woke Fed.gov social-engineering bureaucracy is beyond me
Too much, too soon? We were there for 20 years! That’s a generation. Clearly, the majority of Afghans didn’t want change.
We meddled. I hate countries that meddle. Even if it’s the US.
When General Douglas MacArthur went into Japan after World War II he said the most important problem was how Geisha girls were treated. MacArtur let the emperor stay in place, did noting about the warrior culture and 20 years later left with his tail between his legs while Japan nuked Washington..
Oh wait, that didn’t happen - MacArtur wasn’t a two bit fool like the idiots running the Pentagon today... Yeah Miley and Austin - we’re talking about you guys..
And it’s not like they don’t have phones with internet, they can actually see where the culture went in the west and how far beyond common sense it is still going.
Freegards
US programs gave “trainings to 1,105 Afghan men in which they could discuss their own gender roles
The Taliban stripped Afghan women of all their human rights, and the U.S. sent "gender advisors" to talk about "gender roles"?
How embarrassing.
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