Thanks SJackson.
Posted on 08/04/2023 7:21:23 AM PDT by SJackson
The Taliban won’t be teaching 487 genders Satanist theories like are taught in American universities.
so it’s back to the Stone-age with guns
Well, at least they destroyed the poppy fields, so heroin addiction will drop.
The guy with the loudhailer in the middle ,LOL
The last phase of a failed empire is “the skim”.
Thanks 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.
Like Iran
Well past the Time when you let tribal people BE tribal people.
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.
Like Iran
“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.
Good job Joe
Coming soon to the US?
Ours have been destroyed also - in a different pattern.
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”.
All the Americans who lost their lives for nothing.
Yup, simple Koranic teachings.
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.
“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
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