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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNone 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.
delisen
(6,044 posts)lark
(23,156 posts)There is no good in them, none.
msongs
(67,441 posts)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.
Coventina
(27,172 posts)Brawndo
(535 posts)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)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.