Silencing the witches
There was a new batch of laws telling women to shut up in late August:
New Taliban laws that prohibit women from speaking or showing their faces outside their homes have been condemned by the UN and met with horror by human rights groups.
The Taliban published a host of new “vice and virtue” laws last week, approved by their supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, which state that women must completely veil their bodies – including their faces – in thick clothing at all times in public to avoid leading men into temptation and vice.
Women’s voices are also deemed to be potential instruments of vice and so will not be allowed to be heard in public under the new restrictions. Women must also not be heard singing or reading aloud, even from inside their houses.
But that wasn’t enough, so now there’s more.
They’re still allowed to say “Yes master” when their owners tell them to spread their legs, but that’s it.
Proof positive we should’ve never left… Leaving seems to have been a bipartisan position though.
Twaddle.
Proof positive that American intervention always leaves the local worse off. Especially in The Middle East. Palestine. Iraq. Iran. Egypt. Popular revolutions crushed, dictators empowered, and American arms manufacturers laugh all the way to the bank.
What’s your solution? Another futile, bloody war?
Not remotely possible now and there’s more important things to spend cash and blood to protect, but fortifying Kabul and keeping the rural shitheads from taking over should’ve been doable with the airport as a lifeline. Let them have their horrid mountain caves if they like, but the civilized people of Afghanistan could’ve been protected (thanks Trump/Biden!).
BK: I assume you’re typing this from a Forward operating Base? No?
Blythly saying “we” should have stayed, losing more limbs, more lives, more billions. It’s utterly horrible, but the “civilized” Afghans seemed pretty willing, overall, to welcome the Taliban. Gonna agree with the Reverend.
The Holy Peanut Farmer (Carter) was to blame for so many of todays ongoing disasters, no matter how Christian we are told he was,
Brian, Carter wasn’t the Prez when Egypt’s and Iran’s nascent democracies were destroyed. Nor was he the Prez who invaded Iraq and Afghanistan.
@Brian M #4:
No, just from the comfort of my metaphorical general’s armchair in my book-lined study. It’s counterfactual, but I do believe Fortress Kabul was possible in a way that the Brits and Russians were unable to achieve. Keeping women and girls in education and employment would be well worth the cost. Maybe “we” (Americans) would’ve managed it if the resources and good will hadn’t been pissed away in Iraq (a fight all the MAGA shitheads embraced whole-heartedly with their “Support our Troops” and now suddenly find themselves opposed to foreign wars).