If We're Going to Pull Out of Afghanistan, Let's First Give Every Afghan Woman a Lethal Firearm and Training on How to Use It.

‘Terrible days ahead’: Afghan women fear the return of the Taliban.

After 20 years of liberty, female education is once again threatened by hardline Islamists.

Outside a college from which their mothers were banned, the women waited for friends finishing exams they fear will be some of the last they can take. “The Americans are leaving,” said Basireh Heydari, a Herat University student. “We have terrible days ahead with the Taliban. I’m worried they won’t let me leave the house, let alone what I’m doing now.”

A return to hardline Islamist rule could mean the rollback of one of the intervention’s least disputed achievements – the lifting of a Taliban prohibition of female education.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/14/afghan-women-fear-the-return-of-the-taliban

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Freeranger · M

Don't get me goin' on that shit. Biden has now placed a glaring light on one more (and very large) gaping hole in his ability to govern the most powerful nation on the earth. Does this incest child have even the most minute inkling of what is about to descend on the poor people of Afghanistan who are about to be hurtled back in to the abyss? Child brides and corn hole boys for older men. How perfect....and stone age.
What a fuckin' tool this moron is.....I can only lower my gaze once again. I was once part of a force that bailed on a nation, and the taste it left in my mouth was like biting down on tinfoil.

EPIC fuckage.....epic.

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QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@Freeranger Are you under the impression that Trump was looking to stay in Afghanistan forever? He’s the one who initiated the “peace” talks with the Taliban, which is really just a euphemism for us leaving with our tail between our legs.

We gave it 20 years, and got the same result as anyone else ever did over there. It’s time to go.

Freeranger · M

@beckyromero
shit, it's a reflection on who's sittin' in the big chair. The beltway has no sense of morality. Party, personal profit....the wheel goes 'round and round.

It's the families of those "average" Americans who pour their sweat equity and blood sacrifice into the soil, so yes. How about that? What about that?, what do YOU think about that? If you care to return to what Trump said at that time backed by NATO, it was stated very clearly and succinctly, if the Taliban did not comply with it's own agreements, we would be going back in ASAP, and it would not be pretty for them.

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Spoiledbrat · F

Sad. I forget to be thankful for what I have sometimes.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

As always in these things, lots of women are on the side of the Taliban. Culture is weird.

And in general, I doubt we have much to teach Afghan women on this subject.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
and the women come out to cut up what remains...

soar2newhighs ·

@QuixoticSoul Kipling... “ and go to your Gawd”

jackjjackson · 61-69, M

Excellent plan Ms Romero. We all know Biden won’t do it.

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jackjjackson · 61-69, M

Q has a point too. A number of women over there would just give them to their men anyways. @beckyromero

beckyromero · 36-40, F

@jackjjackson

That's not a good excuse to not help those in need of self-defense.

jackjjackson · 61-69, M

That was sarcasm. @beckyromero

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

You can trust a demonocrat to do the right thing....after they have exhausted all other possibilities

beckyromero · 36-40, F

@sunsporter1649

I've proposed this before. Years ago.

SatanBurger · 36-40, FVIP

I'm not opposed to just dropping off weapons to civilians and letting it sort itself out.

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