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Its pretty difficult to deny at this point that this is the Afghanistan that the fathers and brothers of Afghan women wanted for their wives, daughters and sisters. For good or ill, the Afghan people were not locked in place by the status quo at the point that the US coalition left.

The entire pre-war system was dismantled, USAID spent billions building schools, water treatment plants, roads etc. and the local people blew them up. The people basically started from scratch and chose to build back the same thing from before the war, let their oppressors walk back into Kabul. There’s nothing anyone can do about that from the outside. Maybe in a thousand years Afghanistan will change, but I doubt it.

The people living in afghanistan are the ones being victimized by the taliban. They do have supporters obviously, but to say that all men living in afghanistan are okay with what’s happening is ridiculous.

If America was violently overtaken by gun-toting religious maniacs, would it be fair to say “Oh well some of them voted for it! Their fault!”