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Subject: Re: unintended consequences of US invasion
Date: Oct 30, 2006
Unfortunately, the Americans didn't do anything at all during those horrible Taliban years. The US didn't do anything during those horrible years, like they don't do anything about other human rights abusers, untill they find out that it's in their economic interest. They let the Taliban free to pursue their horrible ideology untill first the Taliban refused to cooperate with the US in their plan to plan an oil pipeline from the North through Afghanistan. Secondly, of course, given 9/11, they were forced to interfere.
The fact that they did diminish the power of the Taliban substantially was of course a nice, but unintentional consequence of the US invasion.
I have spent quite a bit of time in Afghanistan in the past 2 years and can tell you that the US made one huge mistake by pulling out the promised help in that country to invade Iraq. The Taliban are everywhere now in the South and in the border provinces with Pakistan. Hundreds of schools have been closed, teachers beheaded, others are living under constant fear and one of my friends, herself the head of education in one of the provinces there has had to go "underground" on and off since this past summer because of some serious and believeable death threats.
Once out of Kabul, there are no women to be seen on the streets, and if they are out, they are wearing the burka.
In Kabul it's only the more educated and monied elite whose women are from under the burka and working. I do think that's a victory for women there, but, it's a far, far cry from what our media is telling you about this so-called "democracy".
Also, I encourage you to ask yourself what happened to the women who voted in Iraq. Seen any lately not wearing the hijab? Seen any other women on your screen aside from the grieving older women on the streets?
No, probably not. Instead of Sadam Hussein, the US has empowered the male chauvinistic Islamic leaders to wield their power over them. It's a whole lot like Iran is for women in the South right now, as well as in big parts of Baghdad. Eerily a lot like under the Taliban as this great movie depicts.
Don't get me wrong. I have stopped trusting the real reasons of the powers to be acting in Iraq and Afghanistan. I do hope though, that in this war in Afghanistan, the international world sends more troops, and especially more reconstruction money to curtail the new rise of the Taliban.
Cheers,
Belgian citizen
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I think this movie is great for the time we are in, in america. Maybe it will open the eyes of those who say we shouldn't be in war! It shows just another reason Americans had to do something!
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