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2009-04-03 Afghanistan

Taleban-style laws give more rights to women than even Britain or the US

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-04-03 13:06|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 You have the right to be beaten, flogged, cloistered and honor killed. Enjoy!

Posted by ed 2009-04-03 13:19|| 2009-04-03 13:19|| Front Page Top

#2 This is so awful. Banning music and cigarettes and flying kites and similar things doesn't actual hurt people physically.

You would think that a nation that had been oppressed by Islamism would be wiser. But then you would be wrong.

Posted by mhw 2009-04-03 15:31|| 2009-04-03 15:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Graveyard of Empires? Graveyard of Braincells more like.

Posted by Elmolurong Lumumba3922 2009-04-03 17:01|| 2009-04-03 17:01|| Front Page Top

#4 When the ~~Pashtuns~~ Taliban were in control of the country they applied islamic law in such a way as to virtually enslave the ~~non-Pashtun~~ less than compliant northern parts of the country and enrich themselves.

After 9/11, we came in, kicked butt, and kicked the Taliban out into ~~the Pashtun parts of~~ Pakistan.

Then we went and built a new government in Afghanistan, out of whatever Pashtuns we could round up.

And we wonder why nothing works.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-04-03 17:55|| 2009-04-03 17:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Important rule for future endeavors of this kind. Every native institution should be abolished and replaced with a working western equivalent. This doesn't mean just American, but western.

Every damn part of their damned country was utterly dysfunctional, archaic, stupid and vicious.

They needed a rebuild, and we gave them bubble gum and duct tape to try and salvage their unsafe wreck.

Why? They might say "out of respect of their culture". But that is just stupid. Their culture has failed. Utterly.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-04-03 18:02|| 2009-04-03 18:02|| Front Page Top

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