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Taliban Destroys What’s Left of Afghanistan’s Universities-Welcome to the fate of a thinking person in Afghanistan.
Frontpagemagazine ^ | August 4, 2023 | Hugh Fitzgerald

Posted on 08/04/2023 7:21:23 AM PDT by SJackson

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To: SJackson

The Taliban won’t be teaching 487 genders Satanist theories like are taught in American universities.


21 posted on 08/04/2023 8:05:40 AM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: SJackson

so it’s back to the Stone-age with guns


22 posted on 08/04/2023 8:13:30 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: SJackson

Well, at least they destroyed the poppy fields, so heroin addiction will drop.


23 posted on 08/04/2023 8:18:48 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Never worry about anything. Worry never solved any problem or moved any stone.)
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To: SJackson

The guy with the loudhailer in the middle ,LOL


24 posted on 08/04/2023 8:23:46 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: imabadboy99

The last phase of a failed empire is “the skim”.


25 posted on 08/04/2023 8:32:12 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?)
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To: SJackson
Thanks SJackson.

26 posted on 08/04/2023 8:46:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SJackson

More than half a century ago I was training to go to Afghanistan as a Peace Corps volunteer. Happily, as it turned out, I was deselected the day before my group left for Kabul. This spared me the gamma globulin shots and a long-term relationship with amoebic dysentery.

Our Farsi instructors were all Afghan university students—male and female. Very pleasant. It was interesting trying to explain the jokes on ‘Laugh In’ to them. No way to pause the show, so by the time they ‘got it’, a dozen jokes had flown by them. There are pictures showing Afghan women attending Kabul U. at the time—wearing Western clothes and smiles.

We were told that our biggest problem teaching in Afghanistan—most of us were going to teach Afghans English—would be the mullahs in the rural areas where most of us were going. The mullahs held that the only education necessary was for boys to memorize the Koran. Girls, of course, didn’t need school.

I realize that Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires and that it is not our circus and not our monkeys, but the was a time in living memory when the Afghan people wanted better for themselves and seemed to be on the road of achieving it.


27 posted on 08/04/2023 8:46:51 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

Like Iran


28 posted on 08/04/2023 8:49:28 AM PDT by SJackson (blow in a dog’s face, he gets mad at you, take him on a car ride; he sticks his head out the window)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

Well past the Time when you let tribal people BE tribal people.


29 posted on 08/04/2023 8:56:47 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: Wuli
They never were given all the means needed to totally annihilate the Taliban in the first place, which would have required to conduct ourselves in the Afghan-Pakistan region as we did in WWII, where no targets were off limits and no resoucres were denied to our troops - total war for total victory.

Our only route to supply our troops in Afghanistan went through Pakistan, which meant we either had to keep the Paks happy, or go to war with them too.

30 posted on 08/04/2023 8:56:52 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so stupid people won’t be offended)
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To: SJackson

Like Iran


Yes, I was thinking of Iran as well. Iran is much larger and has a long history as a civilization in the middle of things. Afghanistan has always been a bit o a backwater. Iran’s fall to ignorance is even more tragic.


31 posted on 08/04/2023 9:00:51 AM PDT by hanamizu
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“Our only route to supply our troops in Afghanistan went through Pakistan, which meant we either had to keep the Paks happy, or go to war with them too.”

No. The Pakistan route was our choice. Once we had Bagram we did not have to keep using Pakistan; Pakistan which always harbored the Taliban. The PakistAn route instead of Bagram also meant long and dngerous truck transport into Afghanistan from Pakistan. We should have built up Bagram from the beginning.

Why did we use Pakistan? They got to pretend they were helping us and using them meant we were spending tons of money in Pakistan. The deep state at the State Dep loved that.


32 posted on 08/04/2023 9:04:37 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: SJackson

Good job Joe


33 posted on 08/04/2023 9:04:53 AM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: SJackson

Coming soon to the US?


34 posted on 08/04/2023 9:16:17 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: SJackson

Ours have been destroyed also - in a different pattern.


35 posted on 08/04/2023 10:07:46 AM PDT by ZULU (HOOVER, FREEH, MUELLER, COMEY, WRAY, SUCCESSION OF STATIST TRAITORS)
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To: SJackson

Like Korea, post WW2 Europe, the seeds of WW1 im the onerous Versailles Treaty, the loss of China, the Viet Nam War, the Bay of Pigs, the fall of the Shah, Iran’s nuclear program,the creation ofnthe Palestinian “State”- JUST ANOTHER IN A SERIES OF DEMOCRAT FOREIGM POLICY “ TRIUMPHS”.


36 posted on 08/04/2023 10:12:34 AM PDT by ZULU (HOOVER, FREEH, MUELLER, COMEY, WRAY, SUCCESSION OF STATIST TRAITORS)
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To: SJackson

All the Americans who lost their lives for nothing.


37 posted on 08/04/2023 10:29:33 AM PDT by bgill
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To: SJackson

Yup, simple Koranic teachings.


38 posted on 08/04/2023 10:31:28 AM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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To: SJackson

My wife tells me that the mistake we made in Afghanistan was we armed and trained the men who were basically still hardcore Islamic extremists. She says we should have armed and trained the women who had been subjugated, deprived, denigrated and treated like lesser human beings for centuries. If we would have done that and empowered those ladies that sh!thole would be a lot different now. I think she’s correct.


39 posted on 08/04/2023 12:18:34 PM PDT by kawhill (kawhill)
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To: hanamizu

“I realize that Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires...”

Oddly true and one without any global significance except perhaps the poppies.

“...but [it] was a time in living memory when the Afghan people wanted better for themselves and seemed to be on the road of achieving it.”

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” - Mao Zedong


40 posted on 08/05/2023 7:27:29 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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