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This is an odd take. I was in Afghanistan for a total of a year. The Taliban courts that you're talking about executed a woman for having two forced relationshi

by kodah 5y ago

This is an odd take. I was in Afghanistan for a total of a year. The Taliban courts that you're talking about executed a woman for having two forced relationships between two rival men, they would extract young men from their homes and make them into forced fighters, they enslaved local populaces for poppy season, just to name a few. Kidnapping and ransom is like a side business to them.

logifail 5y ago
> they would extract young men from their homes and make them into forced fighters Yesterday a senior German politician floated the idea of reintroducing (or, more accurately, "reactivating") compulsory military service. It previously ran from 1956 until 2011.[0] As someone else has already pointed out, pretty much all of this stuff can be viewed as shades of grey. Apart from the facts that war is awful, and that that despite that, certain people are happy to get rich from it. [0] https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/killing-time-for-conscripts-german-military-service-is-battle-against-boredom-a-702665.html https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/killing-time-fo... see also https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-military-and-political-disaster-the-calamitous-errors-of-germany-s-russia-policy-a-c8b9818e-4bc2-4eb2-ac55-39e5790b29b2 https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-military-and-...
- treis 5y ago
  Please explain the shades of grey in executing a woman for getting raped by two men
- kodah 5y ago
  "Compulsory military service" is not even in the same vicinity as being dragged out of your home at gunpoint and being told to fight or your family dies. Also worth pointing out what the Taliban has been condemned for in the last decade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban#Condemned_practices https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban#Condemned_practices I forgot they also conscript children.
boomboomsubban 5y ago
These are terrible things being conducted by the state. There still very much was/is a Taliban regime, even if you consider them a terrorist group. I believe the US would refer to them as a "rogue state."

by kodah 5y ago

logifail 5y ago

> they would extract young men from their homes and make them into forced fighters Yesterday a senior German politician floated the idea of reintroducing (or, more accurately, "reactivating") compulsory military service. It previously ran from 1956 until 2011.[0] As someone else has already pointed out, pretty much all of this stuff can be viewed as shades of grey. Apart from the facts that war is awful, and that that despite that, certain people are happy to get rich from it. [0] https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/killing-time-for-conscripts-german-military-service-is-battle-against-boredom-a-702665.html https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/killing-time-fo... see also https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-military-and-political-disaster-the-calamitous-errors-of-germany-s-russia-policy-a-c8b9818e-4bc2-4eb2-ac55-39e5790b29b2 https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-military-and-...

treis 5y ago
Please explain the shades of grey in executing a woman for getting raped by two men
kodah 5y ago
"Compulsory military service" is not even in the same vicinity as being dragged out of your home at gunpoint and being told to fight or your family dies. Also worth pointing out what the Taliban has been condemned for in the last decade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban#Condemned_practices https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban#Condemned_practices I forgot they also conscript children.

boomboomsubban 5y ago

These are terrible things being conducted by the state. There still very much was/is a Taliban regime, even if you consider them a terrorist group. I believe the US would refer to them as a "rogue state."