I see: so our two lady respondents think that all Aghanis are Taliban (and my extension, all Afghan women don’t want to go to school and prefer full-length burkas.
Yeah, OK, sure.
But I reiterate - when the Taliban were in control, they provided the training grounds and staging bases for al Qaeda. You two all ready for that bunch to resume operations?
That’s absurd. No one wants women to suffer.
But this is THEIR COUNTRY.
That was a joke when Bush said we were staying to help the women. They are not helped and it is the same as it ever was.
The Taliban ARE NOW in control ... of about 2/3 of the country. Not past tense, are now. That’s because they are the local leaders in a very undeveloped mostly rural country outside of Kabul. They are the people who live there. They are the leaders that emerge from any place that has people living in a place ... the people who come forward and lead or get in control.
Honestly, read something about the country. I is not really a nation in the sense that we think of nation. It is a collection of fiefdoms run by local ‘warlords’ or just local headmen. That’s because they live there, have lived there for centuries and have their own culture, history, ancestry (that they keep careful track of) etc.
None of the culture and internal leadership organization of Afghanistan relates to us in any way whatsoever. We went in and tried to put people in local power who were alien to the areas ... it didn’t work.
Enough already.
OK. Try to lose the emotional hysterics. First Afghan women rank one step lower than dogs on the power dynamic. It doesn’t matter what they want or don’t want. They sit in a corner and STFU.
All Afghanis are not Taliban but Taliban are Afghanis. They are all freaking related through the tribes. Its not America or Europe. They are a bunch of 7th century barbarians. They like it that way. We will never change things ever!
The only thing that will get rid of the Taliban is if the Afghanis decide to get rid of them.