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What is it like for women & girls in Afghanistan today? Hunger, isolation, & ingenuity. How CARE is helping.

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[–] Echo71Niner@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, send your thanks to the fucking Americans who fucked that country and ran away.

[–] preciouspupp@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It already sucked well before the US invasion.

[–] Echo71Niner@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean when the fucking Americans armed them to fuck over the Russians?

It already sucked well before the US invasion.

[–] Sendbeer@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Sucked before then too!

[–] mlong99@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That country has been messed up for centuries and it’s not Americans who are keeping girls out of school

[–] Echo71Niner@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Two Decades of American Lies in Afghanistan

[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The entire western world provided training and equipment to the people of Afghanistan so they could defend themselves.

And they rolled over like an obedient dog for the Taliban.

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A national army is useless if it is not supported by an actual government and long standing social and political institutions.

Afghanistan is still a tribal based society and that is where people's allegiances lie.

Going into Afghanistan and expecting decades/centuries of political, cultural and social development to be imposed from outside in a few years (in a society that has been hostile to outsiders since the time of Alexander the Great...) was a fools game from the outset.

The USA invaded the region with zero plans for what to do once they had won, same with Iraq.

What is going on there now is a tragedy but expecting anything else to come out of the US occupation is farcical.