claiming they have a moral obligation to help rebuild the country based on the Doha Agreement.
IIRC the Doha Agreement was with the Afghanistan government, not with the Taliban who overthrew them.
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China should take this opportunity to get Afganistan into their orbit. The US sure as hell won't pay reparations for the damage.
Last October, Afghanistan's acting commerce minister told Reuters the Taliban wanted to formally join Xi's flagship "Belt and Road" infrastructure initiative.
This could be a game changer, as the progress of the BRI in the region (especially China-Pakisthan economic corridor) has been slowed down due to militant activity in the region.
“Cooperate with Afghanistan in all fields, especially in politics, economy, agriculture and medicine, so that Afghanistan reaches self-sufficiency,” he said.
You don’t treat women as human.
Who do you think funded the Taliban in the first place?
Shitlibs don't even support paying reparations for problems they caused.
I still remember when Taliban was marching into Kabul and while US was fleeing out of the country, that there were many people who were desperate to argue for the war and occupation going to keep going, because Taliban would be bad for women's rights. There is no question about Taliban being bad towards women. However the logic of keeping the war going that killed mostly civilians, including women, to guard women's rights is just twisted. This "They don't let girls to go to school. let's keep bombing them" is just slightly worse of the "You won't let girls to go to school even after we bombed you. I hope you stay poor, suffer and starve".
What does motivate this? Neocon butthurth? Racism? A sense of vengeance of those who still believe in liberal universalism and nation building? A just general confusion and mixup in moral priorities?
Realistically what will US aid accomplish? Will those suffering even receive any of it? Won't it just provide the means for Taliban leaders and ideals to remain in power and strengthen? And won't that inevitably lead to them getting comfortable enough to lash out at the world once again?
I understand the problems and suffering caused by our "war on terror". Its not as simple as you make it seem though. its more of a moral dilemma rather than moral priorities.
There is no US aid, there are US sanctions and seizure of afghan funds. Who do you think is going to suffer from those? It's not the men in power with the guns, they will be fine either way. It just means that all the civilians will have even less opportunities.
So make any aid contingent on human rights improvement
Wow someone should have tried threatening peripheral countries by withholding trade deals, aid, loans from the World Bank and IMF in exchange for political changes. Why didn't anyone think of that already? 🤣
The global financial system does not care about human rights, firms want peripheral countries to remain undeveloped to keep costs down. With improvements in living standards come improvements in civil rights. That is what every single person who studies any society will tell you, except for liberals who want to justify extortion and sanctions, but only to "help" of course.
So you want them to remain undeveloped. Do you even know how Afghanistan ended up under Taliban control to begin with?
I was commenting on the quote.
Are you afraid now of standing up for what you meant by your comment?
Nothing like liberals advocating for the death of women from starvation under the excuse of women's rights.
in b4 liberals come in complain about how countries they consider backward should not be allowed to develop in any way
"We care about the Afghans, this is why we support violent regime change and strict sanctions. The suffering Afghans would want it this way"
During the withdrawal, the US stole like $2B of Afghanistan's emergency recovery fund, which for anticommuniam heads out there, is the first actual case of a punitive famine being brought on by a vengeful despot named Joe.