When We Were Nation-Building in Afghanistan, Did We Remember the Mandatory Pig Roasts?

American Thinker ^ | 14 Sep, 2021 | Selwyn Duke

[MtnClimber]

There's no nation-building without civilization-building and there wasn't a lot of that in U.S.-occupied Afghanistan.

For the record, I’ve not only opposed our Mideast military adventures but also, in 2007, wrote an article warning about the folly of “nation-building.”

Yet I also know that if you are going to overthrow a tyrannical regime and remake the government, a prerequisite is winning the hearts and minds of the people. You must also recognize that you “never change things by fighting the existing reality,” as famed architect Buckminster Fuller observed. “To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

Now, when the Nazis invaded the USSR during World War II, they initially encountered some people who hoped they’d free them from Stalin’s brutal rule. Adolf Hitler was very blunt about his absence of interest in winning hearts and minds, however, reportedly saying that he came not as a liberator, but a conqueror.

What of America in Afghanistan, however? Were we replacing the dreaded Taliban government (which the Biden administration now thinks it can work with) with a better model? And from the Afghans’ perspective, did we come as liberators or cultural conquerors?

Consider: “Over the past 20 years…Congress has allocated close to a billion dollars to export academic feminism to Afghanistan,” reported commentator Tucker Carlson last month. That money was spent on “programs like a two years Master’s degree in Gender and Women’s Studies offered at Kabul University, something Afghans apparently never knew they needed,” he continued.

[MtnClimber]

How can we build a civilization in Afghanistan when we are tearing ours apart at home?

[Nateman]

The evil at the heart of Afghanistan was Islam . America foolishly spent its blood and treasure defending a Constitution that was explicitly Islamic.

[Pete Dovgan]

They should have only trained women for military and police. That would have changed the landscape.

[moovova]

“Question: Did we also remember to institute mandatory weekly pig roasts?”

Ok...even if it was a goat roast rather than a pig roast...what kind of “suicide bomber magnet” would those events have been? With an unlimited supply of radicalized sub-moron IQ individuals that had been convinced to stroll into a crowd and push a button...how many goat roast would there have been? Attendance would’ve dropped off pretty quickly..

[mabarker1]

Afghanistan has never been and never will be civilized (by western standards) because they don’t want to be. They are cave dwelling, camel humping, female abusers, lowlife goat herders and poppy plant growers (aka Heroine suppliers).

Q) How many over the hundreds of years have tried to “civilize” Afganistan ? Seven major ones

A) How many have succeeded in doing so ? ZER0, ZIP, PIFF ,NILL, NADA, NONE.

All the Lipstick on Earth could be put on a Pigs lips and it’s still a PIG !!!