However bad, maybe "Muhammed Studies" is better than "Gender Studies".
Kind of like most universities here. Centers if ideological tripe pushing a progressive mindset on the students with the aim of turning out unthinking, pablum repeating zealots.
I don’t blame them, considering the rot that universities have sown in the West in the last half century.
“...simple-minded Muslim fanatics...”
Is there any other kind? /spit
Maybe they have the right idea.
So basically the same thing happening here...
Wait just a darn minute here! Didn't Bush II says we were going to "invest" in democracy there? And didn't Obama say the Afghanistan was was the one "we" could win? And didn't Trump think trying to finesse an exit while retaining a base was a plan? And didn't the Idiot-in-Cheif Biden blow up that plan by withdrawing all troops and diplomats while leaving war materiel worth billions there? And continue to send some money later?
While the title speaks of "a thinking person in Afghanistan," perhaps a fairer look might be to find "a thinking person" in the twenty years' budget-busting, military adventure and "failure" which our thinking people assured was a good thing.
Who won? Apparently the Taliban and our war industry manufactures. Quite a team.
Totally worth 20+ years of dead/disabled US military personnel.
MFers…
universities?
What a waste! Truth was revealed in the 7th Century.
But wait, didn’t Biden promise that our leaving would not cause the Taliban to take control? The Afghans have 80,000 that’s THOUSANDS troops the old liar said and everyone shut up. Will the NE elites find this interesting ? Will they even know it happened? Trust tough guy Biden, he’s got this.
How Afghanistan is governed is none of our concern.
Three of those rifles are American. Wonder where they got them...
Who do i feel sorriest for?
1. The American troops. Particularly those who had any fighting time in Afghanistan.
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. However, I understand the American public post-911 were not going to get behind such an effort, so all measures our troops could employ were just half measures meant to “contain” the Taliban.
2. Those in Afghanistan who truly wanted a different Afghanistan and yet were usually out maneuvered by their own Taliban countrymen. You saw some thwousands of them trying to get a hold of an American aircraft taking off on a runway at the Kabul airport.
It has been expected. It was American money which was feeding Afghanistan for the past 20 years.
Most of it was filtered through corruption in the Afghan government.
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
The guy with the loudhailer in the middle ,LOL
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.