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Better get rid of every chemistry textbook containing a Mendelyev table. Marie Curie had a hand in a few of those.
Somehow, I dont think that’ll matter to much in a Taliban university. May as well just go back to “earth, water, air and fire”.
It will matter. Even if the leadership is backward as shit, those guys still need engineers, doctors and other skilled workers.
They need them, they just won’t be getting them.
They are in for a shitty couple of decades.
In a lot of ways, I fear that won’t be true and it’ll be held up as a shitty example of why misogyny ‘works’
Case in point, they can still sell their opium for a lot of money and use that money to bring in engineers from SEAsia that will risk it for the big money they’re being promised.
They can bring in nurses, etc with the same money, it’s a LOT of a money and unlike Oil, there isn’t a ‘opidollar’ like the ‘petrodollar’
It’s despressing that the right might run and win this shit, I’m just so tired of it.
I hope for all our sakes that you’re wrong, but who knows. I personally dont think importing skilled slave labour is a winning strategy long term, disgruntled engineers aren’t going to be doing their best work.
The other problem is that no matter how bad it goes, they can spend the next 15-20 years blaming their problems on the Americans, so itll be a while before any real introspection occurs.
Absolutely agree how depressing this all is. :(
I hope for all our sakes that you’re wrong
So do I.
Id argue it’s gonna be much better than when america and NATO came to “civilize” them, or the russians came before that or the Brits came even before that. Afghanistan requires Change, but real change happens within, by the people, not fucking “white saviours”
Absolutely, they have to fix their own problems. But we have seen how the change has gone since the US left, and so far its not been on positive path.
Tourism is currently booming, people are coming back to Afghanistan and that alone is a massive change, it’s restructuring what it is decades of drug trafficking for finance to tourism for finance. My friend no offense, but I don’t think you know anything about Afghanistan bar what is said on some major corporate media conglomeration owned by Peter thiel or some shit
Booming?
https://www.afghanembassy.au/art-and-culture/travel-and-tourism.html - This claims 20k per year, with the peak being in the 1970s at 90k.
Antarctica claims 80k in one year: https://iaato.org/news-room/data-statistics
If those sources are too biased, feel free to supply your own.
Either way, when the entire countries women and girls are unable to access education, a small bump to tourism doesnt quite add up to a net positive in my eyes.
By your powers combined I am Captain Backwards!
Captain Backwards
He’s a Zero, gonna take the Women out of school now
He’s the right wing, magnified and he fights against our equal rights
That doesn’t matter, they just won’t mention her.
And now with this chatter coming from the US about retaking Baghram Airbase it’s likely a deal will be made with them, you know, turn a blind eye…
Nuggan is dead.
Yet you are only wringing your hands on afghanistan, not saudi arabia or elsewhere.
Seems like a concerted effort to sanction the regime, steal their currency in the global markets, and prevent them from buying food. Biden actively tried to starve those woman he claimed to care about too when he personally decided to steal half of Afghanistan’s currency reserves they desperately needed to buy food to give to the 9/11 victims families for not extraditing and accused suspect to their hated enemy. I think you should rethink how much of a crime that is, not extraditing to an untrustworthy partner, let alone one that tortures people.
All of these Afghanistan posts just reek. Impoverishing them will not give woman more rights. Seeing as women are having their rights removed in the west here maybe you should concentrate on that?
What makes you think that? The Saudis are awful too, no one sane would say they’re not.
I definitely definitely don’t agree with the person you’re responding to, but if you know the whole history of how the middle east got to where it is today, seeing the British Broadcasting Corporation tut tut about human rights in the area might make you lose your mind as well.
Yes, the theft of Afghanistan’s currency reserves was shameful and yes, no government in the world right now actually gives a shit about human rights in Afghanistan, but the Taliban are still violent misogynists and theocrats who should be overthrown. If I were Afghani I would be willing to work with a foreign government to do that, even though I know how badly that has worked out for Afghanistan in the past, because the Taliban really are that awful.
