DISQUS

wedding rings · 1 year ago

This is a nice post about the true situation of the current world. Afghanistan has many serious problems in terms of culture. Bringing freedom to them would be only via infrastructure of education for both men and women. Women without financial freedom can never be free enough. Families see them as a candidate of bride even in the early ages. This is for thousand years so and is not easy to change. But what Bush brings them has nothing to do with the real problems of those people. The problem is more complicated than they can handle I believe.

bradhart · 1 year ago

You can't give people freedom anymore than you can give them equality. These are things people have to take it upon themselves to get for themselves. Sure you can help them in various ways, but it truly has to be something they want for themselves and their own reasons.

I said it before we were attacked on 9/11 and it hold just as true now, we will always be hated in the middle east because we tell them how to run their lives. We are so blinded my logocentricism that we can't even understand that toppling some dictators isn't in our best interest as a nation. Oops we're sorry we got rid of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein for you, now there is chaos in your country. Oops we gave you freedom, but we really didn't want you to pick a leader who likes even less than the one that we just got rid of for you. Can you say WTF were we thinking?

If we want to give these people freedom and the American dream we throw open our borders and help anyone who wants to leave their old country do so. If you want to shake up the way Arab countries to do things. We usurp their women and provide them an all American education, to include rock music, skimpy clothes, public displays of affection, and sports more exciting than soccer. While we are at it give them a healthy dose of sex ed classes that stress it is okay to say no, and the use of birth control and condoms when you want to say yes.

RooYo · 1 year ago

That is simply not the case, especially when George Bush has done nothing but lie to us, especially about how the women in Afghanistan are now living their lives.

plumbing supplies · 1 year ago

well if thats what george bush thinks then its what at least half of america thinks since we voted him in office and chose him to represent us.

Sharon · 1 year ago

What people need to realise is that war is bad and not good. A bad peace is better than a good war. When the warmongers are no longer in power things should get better and we can build the world we really want.

Tgeo888 · 1 year ago

If you think things have gotten worse since the U.S. invasion, you seriously need an adjustment of your current world view.

Back when the Taliban was the ruling government, you would be publicly beaten by the Taliban's "religious police" for things like wearing too "revealing" clothes (which included things like the chador). Some women didn't even go to primary school because of the policy of not allowing co-ed schools. Also, women were not allowed to work (besides the medical field to examine other females).

Another thing you should consider is the fact that the average life expectancy in Afghanistan is a little over 40 years old. Compared to our life spans, they only live half as long. It may seem wrong to us, but to them, they are doing it to ensure their family line. Also, in countries in the middle east, sexual attraction is not a factor when choosing a partner. It all depends on your financial, religious, and family background (you get married to be taken care of financially and not be subjected to horrible things like working in the heroin fields or becoming a prostitute).

By the way, unless I missed something, I'm not seeing how our toppling of the Taliban government has caused any of the things you mentioned in the bullets to happen =/.

Having said that, I do believe that 11 years old is entirely too young to be married, but different countries have different traditions. And finally, (just for a little bit of perspective), these views are coming from a 16 year old male who lives in the U.S. (who is not sexist as much as you may want to think I am =x).

Bill · 1 year ago

Great post. Well said. The sheeple will never get it. "Our country is great so therefore it must do great things and anybody who thinks differently is a traitor" is pretty much how they think.

Matt · 1 year ago

The only economic and political system that promotes good will towards all regardless of race, sex, religion etc. is a free market system run by a Republic. Unfortunately, our country has gone astray from what the writers of the Constitution intended... which was a republic - not a democracy. An economic system that has competition which allows buyers and sellers to exchange goods at a price that is mutually beneficial.

Getting rid of a dictator is a step in the right direction, even though I think that it was none of America's business. Change does not occur over night. Most of these problems are the result of tyranny and a culture that let them take hold. Freedom did not cause these problems nor did America. Did America help them? I doubt it.

Buffy · 1 year ago

It is deplorable that many here have bought the big lie, that the war we are fighting is bringing anything but harm to all involved. It makes me sick to imagine what those girls and women face throughout their lives.

Thank you for your informative and provocative post.

Jenny · 1 year ago

this war is a pissing contest. the first thing he did when he sat in that chair was say "OK! My daddy thought they're gonna plan something so I'm gonna go kill them and if we lost men then whoopdedoo!" he's an ass. and whatever is happening over there (i stopped paying attention) is, in my opinion, his fault.

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Kankaca Sozluk · 1 year ago

What about the current crisis in US economics? Isn't it the obvious result of the war US has had in Iraq and Afghanistan for years? Increasing the the prices of oil is not a solution apparently.

Trooby Dictionary · 1 year ago

The situation of women in Afghanistan or in other middle eastern countries has actually nothing to do with Islam. The religion is used just as a curtain or as a tool to cover all their primitiveness.

Actually true Islam brings freedom and modernity both to the society and to women. Unfortunately this is still a world of men who don't want to see that truth.