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Funny list of countries. Ask women in Afghanistan how they were treated with US presence vs. now. Ask jews in Palestine how Hamas treated them vs. Israel. Ask p
by nkmnz 10mo ago
Funny list of countries. Ask women in Afghanistan how they were treated with US presence vs. now. Ask jews in Palestine how Hamas treated them vs. Israel. Ask people in Yemen how they are living right now, but be sure to talk to them directly instead of writing to them, because barely anybody there can read. Their leaders just love them so much, they don't want them to read any bad news.
- RobotToaster 10mo agoAsk women in Afghanistan how they were treated with Soviet presence vs. now.
- terminalshort 10mo agoI don't have many good things to say about the USSR, but they are 100x better than the Taliban.
- jacquesm 10mo agoThat's a fairly low bar.
- rib3ye 10mo agoIt goes back to the core issue: which nations have the moral right to tell others how to conduct domestic policy.
- nkmnz 10mo agoThis probably doesn’t make the point you think it does.
- silver_silver 10mo agoFair and just societies thrive in refugee camps after all
- jeltz 10mo agoIf you ask women in Afghanistan you will hear different views. People in the cities had a better life during the American occupation but in rural Afghanistan women were often worse off than under the Taliban. The US propped up warlords, some of them real monsters, and those controlled a lot of the country side. There was no good side in Afghanistan and the US should have stayed out, instead of propping up one group of oppressors to try to defeat another.
- nkmnz 10mo agoSo what you say is that there wasn't too much western engagement, but too little. I agree.
- worldsavior 10mo ago> There was no good side in Afghanistan and the US should have stayed out, instead of propping up one group of oppressors to try to defeat another. I mean... The Taliban caused 9/11... What did you exactly expect the US to do?
- nkmnz 10mo agoThey didn't. They helped the organizers to hide after the fact.
- worldsavior 10mo agoAnd that's OK?
- byryan 10mo agoI don't think I understand what your point is? Are you implying that the US should have what? Stayed in Afghanistan forever? What solution would you have proposed there?