Despair is settling in’: female suicides on rise in Taliban’s Afghanistan

[David_TheMan]

I understand that part. But you're telling me that the US-backed Afghani government didn't even secure more rights for women outside of the zones under the authority of warlords?

For example, the suddenly lost education prospects the women who are killing themselves are talking about in OP's article, don't they come from the American influence?

You honestly think you can reduce the entirety of the American-backed policy in Afghanistan to local tribal law?

I would take this media run with a large grain of salt first off.

Second there were areas where they allowed women more freedoms Kabul and around us facilities for increased us money, as I said in the beginning though these areas had increased drug usage and prostitution, those were taken away .

Yes I can easily reduce the us policy to that because that was the enacted us policy.

Our Faustian Bargains in Afghanistan

Afghan elections illuminate how ex-warlords’ influence continues to hold back democratic governance and threaten political stability, write Caroline Wadhams, Colin Cookman, and Christina Misunas.

www.americanprogress.org

https://carnegieendowment.org/files/warlords_as_bureaucrats.pdf

US didn't care it was a money making MiC enterprise more than it was about anything else. Invasion wasn't even necessary as taliban told the us they would hand over bin laden in accordance with Islamic law to a neutral Muslim nation for charge and trial, Bush, Chaney, and rumsfueld rejected that offer and knew he ran off to Pakistan early on in the invasion.

 

[David_TheMan]

What are highway men ? Please elaborate

Roaming stickup me who attack travelers on commonly used roads.

 

[Lambent55]

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Why are people STILL defending the Taliban in here???

THE MOTHAFUKKIN' TALIBAN?????!!!!

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[Professor Emeritus]

Sucks to be in Afghanistan. Not any of our problems.

Um, we obviously had quite a lot to do with making that place a hellhole. We (and the USSR) played a large role in plunging them into forever-war in in the first place.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I don't care about the ownership structure, they have proven through their coverage of some of our biggest conflicts and their heavy handed reporting on the Global South that they are not the liberal darlings some try to make them out to be, especially under the last few editors. They are just as susceptible to influence from their sources/powerful entities and the political climate as any other news outlet (see how they've thrown Assange under the bus/destroyed Snowden HD for British intelligence/China fearmongering, etc.). Some of my biggest issues with them - pushing for direct NATO involvement/WW3 in Ukraine, one-sided neoliberal reporting of HOA conflicts, imperialist coverage of Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela, Eritrea, championing Iraq War, whitewashing Israeli apartheid state.

So because some journalists there have written some things you don't like, that makes them the media arm of the UK government? This is a frequent cognitive bias - without the slightest evidence, you wish to attribute some big conspiracy theory to their views rather than just accept that your views are not universal.

Your list isn't even objective - for example, they're the ones who Snowden chose to go to in order to publish his expose, and they've frequently been accused of anti-semitism for their criticisms of the Israeli government.

Two of most disgusting headlines you will ever read are courtesy of the "independently owned" Guardian.

Geraldine Brooks isn't even a Guardian journalist, she's a former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent. That's just a guest piece from an outside journalist expressing her own opinion.

The second article is worded stupidly but you're making a mountain out of a molehill. There are dozens of cases in which they worded similar stories in ways that were far more condemning of the Israeli military.

Palestinian boy shot dead by Israeli troops in West Bank refugee camp

Teenager killed and two others wounded during Israeli arrest operation amid escalating tensions

www.theguardian.com

Palestinian boy shot by Israeli soldiers during clashes on Gaza border dies

Omar Hassan Abu al-Nile was hit on the sidelines of a demonstration near the fence separating the Gaza Strip

www.theguardian.com

Three-year-old Palestinian boy shot by Israeli soldiers dies in hospital

Mohammed al-Tamimi was shot in the head while riding in a car in the West Bank with father, who was also injured

www.theguardian.com

Palestinian teenager 'shot in back by senior Israeli soldier while fleeing'

Claims by multiple witnesses that Mohammed Kasbeh, 17, was shot as he ran away appear consistent with medical examination of his body

www.theguardian.com

Israeli troops 'mistakenly' kill Palestinian teenager

Military says 15-year-old died and four others were wounded in West Bank after soldiers mistook them for stone-throwers

www.theguardian.com

Palestinian shot dead by Israeli soldiers in West Bank

Incident comes on same day as Israeli man stabbed in East Jerusalem and teenage Palestinian suspect shot

www.theguardian.com

Israeli soldier who shot wounded Palestinian charged with manslaughter

Military prosecutors reduce charge from murder for soldier filmed shooting Abed al-Fatah al-Sharif in Hebron, West Bank

www.theguardian.com

Child among three Palestinians shot dead by Israeli army

More than 120 wounded during shooting at weekly protests at Israel’s border fence with the Gaza Strip

www.theguardian.com

Not guilty. The Israeli captain who emptied his rifle into a Palestinian schoolgirl

· Officer ignored warnings that teenager was terrified· Defence says 'confirming the kill' standard practice.

www.theguardian.com

 

[Da King]

@Rhakim keep finding excuses for the taliban, whatever helps your sleep at night





Religion of peace showing these women the way to allah

 

[Professor Emeritus]

@Rhakim keep finding excuses for the taliban, whatever helps your sleep at night

I'm the one who has spent this entire thread attacking the posters who support the Taliban.


Goddamn you really are the WOAT for a reason.

 

[RARI_Godwind]

Sad af

 

[ISO]

Dumb ass backwards shyt hole

 

[Professor Emeritus]

This is still one of the most memorable @David_TheConfederate exchanges.

Lol, like I said its funny how mad some of you.get when I point out your white daddy aint shyt and demonstrated more racism.towards black americans.tham.fucling.hitlwr.

Also funny.how.talkimg.about.reality, ahit jesse owens.himselfnsaid, reality, makesbyou angry. Lol

And then this cac has a stroke while defending hitler. Thecoli.com yall

 

[David_TheMan]

This is still one of the most memorable @David_TheConfederate exchanges.

Reduced to name calling.
I love to see it.

 

[Roger king]

It is a blessing to live in a democratic society. The idea that this women cant even get an education is insane, totalitarian fascist regime

 

[Neuromancer]

Damn. They gonna end up like china with less women.

 

[Lexington Steele]

Why are people STILL defending the Taliban in here???

THE MOTHAFUKKIN' TALIBAN?????!!!!

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Well, they are the lesser of two evils, and that's the only rational choice we can make.