Good, we see Taliban as demons wearing human skin since time immemorial.
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2025
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You mean except for when you guys were training and arming them right?
Do you think the person you're replying to is somehow responsible for Taliban being in power?
Who is "you guys" and when did this arming and training happen?
Not because I doubt it happened, but because it's happened enough times with enough people that you need to be specific...
It’s funny how every country is responsible for their actions, except America, cause you guys love to use the shaggy “it wasn’t me” defense towards every atrocity. “It want me, it was that American over there!”
I think Rambo 3 was the one in Afghanistan, where Rambo joins the Taliban against the Russians, which was written that way to reflect the reality of Americans supporting and training the mujahideen of Afghanistan to oppose Russia. Those mujahideen are what turned into the taliban. America has a great history of training their future enemies
That's why I was asking which time.
That Taliban rose up because the country was abandoned by the US after helping them see off the Soviet Union (and indeed being one of the catalysts that caused the Soviet Union to collapse). They were left with no infrastructure, and the Taliban stepped in with all the religious crazies in tow. And yeah, a lot of them were the mujahideen who were armed and trained by the US. They're soldiers after all, and new regimes always need soldiers...
The Russians later gave them some equipment and funding to fight the US when they later invaded, but nowhere near enough to actually fight back. It was going to take more than a couple of rocket launchers for that.
Nobody ever gave a shit about the people there. Not the Taliban, not the US and not the Russians. Nobody is learning from it. You've got the exact same shit right now in Syria. They were rebels, then they were ISIS and Al-Qaeda, now they're rebels again. All based on whether or not they're attacking the old enemy.
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Something about the "not human" phrasing is bothering me. I get what they're trying to convey and I don't dispute it, but it also feels inaccurate in a way that might lead us to miss important aspects of the situation.
I'm sure if you asked an Afghan man how many people live in his home, he'd include women and children in his answer. So I don't think they literally see women as a separate species.
My gut feeling is more like Afghan men don't generally believe in the concept of human rights, as opposed to separate sets of rights for men and women. Hell, they may not even believe in the Western concept of rights at all, and may think only in terms of things like religious obligations and cultural norms.
I wonder if there's a different phrasing we could use that has the same emotional impact but doesn't suggest questionable conclusions about the world view of Afghans.
I’m sure if you asked an Afghan man how many people live in his home, he’d include women and children in his answer.
I'm not so sure. I have zero basis to think it's one way or another, but given all the oniony-but-actually-pure-facts headlines of these recent… months? I'm definitely not certain of it.
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