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I’m not sure how “progressive” it is to let the Taliban overrun the Afghani government and ban women from working or attending any school.
by reducesuffering 6y ago
I’m not sure how “progressive” it is to let the Taliban overrun the Afghani government and ban women from working or attending any school.
- bzb6 6y agoThat’s not the west’s problem.
- reducesuffering 6y agoIt’s a humanitarian problem. If you have a people that will starve without food aid, will you also say it’s not the west’s problem? Obviously the use of force and popular support for the Taliban complicates things in Afghanistan, but I believe it still needs to be looked at in terms of the real results of our actions.
- ed25519FUUU 6y agoSo we’ve been there 20 years. How many more decades before we realize it’s a problem we can’t solve?