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The sad irony here is that the Taliban gained a lot of public support for abolishing this practice, and with the international communities diminishing engagemen
by cup 11y ago
The sad irony here is that the Taliban gained a lot of public support for abolishing this practice, and with the international communities diminishing engagement, the Taliban is set to return and gain more grass rooots support for putting this practice down again.
- crpatino 11y agoHas to make you wonder if the Taliban have not been the "good guys" from the very beginning?
- garrettgrimsley 11y agoOr do people not neatly fit into little boxes marked "Good" and "Bad?"
- newjersey 11y agoThe Taliban allegedly destroyed poppy fields. The Taliban also destroyed Buddhist monuments. You're right. People do not fit into boxes of good and evil.
- cmdkeen 11y agoWell except for their killing of homosexuals, repression of women and their purges of historical artefacts deemed un-Islamic.
- LoSboccacc 11y agoeh, memory is such a short and controversial thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqWjJdXKIXA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqWjJdXKIXA mind you, there is no such thing as good guys, the groups which we don't pay to kill the others are generally pictured as the bad guys by the media. That's what makes the Syria situation so hairy, for example. which one are the good guys to help? There are terrifying claims on both sides by now, because at the beginning there wasn't an interest on helping one specific group so no one got special media treatment.
- crpatino 11y agoRight, my bad... I think I did not made myself clear. It is not that the Talibans are angels. I was thinking more along the lines of Ender's Game... when at the end it is reveled that it is humans, not insectoids, who are playing the role of the genocidal, invading, alien force.