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Coventina

(27,172 posts)
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 11:44 AM Feb 2019

None of "our" negotiations with the Taliban involve the rights of women.

As a woman, I say this is a betrayal of every service member who died there.

We went there, lost lives and money, for nothing.

A complete waste, from start to finish.

I am angry beyond words.

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None of "our" negotiations with the Taliban involve the rights of women. (Original Post) Coventina Feb 2019 OP
Thank you for raising this issue. delisen Feb 2019 #1
Nothing but chaos and trouble come from this administration. lark Feb 2019 #2
the original mission was get bin laden and get out. nation building was msongs Feb 2019 #3
If that was the case, why didn't we leave after Obama announced OBL's death? Coventina Feb 2019 #4
Because of the "can't give them a haven for terrorist plotting" reasoning but, Brawndo Feb 2019 #5
No surprise. Taliban is a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist political movement. Hortensis Feb 2019 #6
True. McCamy Taylor Feb 2019 #7

msongs

(67,441 posts)
3. the original mission was get bin laden and get out. nation building was
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 03:35 PM
Feb 2019

not in the plan. we are still there because corporate america makes billions off the occupation. once we leave taliban will toss out any agreements.

Brawndo

(535 posts)
5. Because of the "can't give them a haven for terrorist plotting" reasoning but,
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 06:04 PM
Feb 2019

I don't see a meaningful difference between plots that originate from Afghanistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, etc.. That being said, it's no shock that fundamentalists who are negotiating with a different stripe of fundamentalists would not prioritize the rights of women.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. No surprise. Taliban is a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist political movement.
Sat Feb 2, 2019, 06:13 PM
Feb 2019

They're EXTREMELY conservative and EXTREMELY hostile to and rejecting of western religion and culture. A major reason for their militant battle is to protect Afghanistan, and its women, from moral defilement and corruption by us.

We are literally centuries apart in culture. You expect the impossible.

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