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Allow women in Afghanistan to live under horrible conditions under an oppressive ultra-Islamic regime. Strange how everyone forgot about that one as soon as th
by hereforphone 4y ago
Allow women in Afghanistan to live under horrible conditions under an oppressive ultra-Islamic regime. Strange how everyone forgot about that one as soon as the yellow/blue flag became a meme.
- libertine 4y agoI don't think it's forgotten, it's just not mentioned as much in the media. You may claim that "if it's not in the media, it as good as forgotten", but I don't agree with that. In fact we keep seeing the outcomes of it still in the media.
- hereforphone 4y agoDo you? Contacts in Afghanistan are sharing videos of people being whipped / beaten in the streets. And it reportedly gets much worse. I haven't seen anything about this mentioned in Western media. This is reminiscent of how war protests in my liberal city stopped suddenly as soon as Obama was elected, and never restarted though he bolstered troop levels (initiated surges). The war was never the main point.
- rendall 4y agoI dunno. The US propped up a government there for a generation and it still failed to launch. Afghans didn't want it. Sometimes, you just have to accept that the best you have to offer isn't wanted or appreciated.