• ahornsirup@feddit.org
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    7 hours ago

    [Taliban rule] being better than us occupation in many respects

    Unless you happen to be a woman. So literally half of the population.

    Fuck off dude.

    • Hector@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Well nothing helps those women out like stealing their foreign currency reserves so they can’t buy food. Or sanctioning their government. It is not like there are 100 other countries that are not respecting women’s rights that don’t get the same treatment from you for some reason? Because you are being too old against the Taliban by somebody with an agenda here.

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        5 hours ago

        They were much better off before, foreign currency stolen or not. Now they’ve lost most of their basic rights - it’s terrifying.

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          5 hours ago

          If you think they were better under the puppet regime you really don’t know what we had going on over there. The taliban are popular because they’re honest. Our hodgepodge of Warlords was anything but honest. Never stood a chance of winning over the country’s population because it never actually tried to. Something every single Inspector General said when they looked at Afghanistan and our position there for 20 years.