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| "Please, kind Western NGOs, teach us more about the joys of feminism." |
The US war in Afghanistan (cost $2.4 trillion) continues to go badly. After revelations that the Taliban are actually winning on the ground and news that Trump is going to "win hearts and minds" by ordering more unrestricted bombing, comes the news that the US-backed government is basically falling apart.
From Arab News:
"An Afghan faction which is a key partner of President Ashraf Ghani’s government has threatened his plan to fire a leading member of the party who has been a long-serving governor for northern Balkh province.
The development adds further to the already deepening political tension in the US-backed government while Taliban insurgents and Daesh affiliates make gains on the battlefield and with growing calls for convocation of a grand traditional assembly which may decide on the formation of an interim government and on the fate of US forces in Afghanistan."
The tiff involves the Jamiat-e-Islami party, which, as the name suggests, may not be as unsympathetic to the Taliban as one would expect from a US ally, and Afghani President Ashraf Ghani. Ghani is attempting to remove, Atta Mohammad Noor, the governor of Balkh province, who is a member of Jamiat-e-Islami.
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In recent months he has been trying to build up his power base through crude nepostism and tribal politics, sparking opposition from others in the governing coalition, like the Jamiat-e-Islami party.
"Ghani has gradually reduced the role of Jamiat figures in recent months and in summer blocked the arrival of his first vice president General Abdul Rashid Dostum, another factional leader, to Balkh to announce the formation of an opposition alliance with Atta and another senior member of Ghani’s government.
Dostum lives in exile in Turkey for allegedly ordering the detention and sexual abuse of a political rival...
Dostum, Atta and many of those who had gathered in Kandahar accuse Ghani of power monopoly and nepotism. Ghani, who is under US and Western donors’ pressure for bringing reforms in his government, denies the allegations."
Don't ask me, but why would anyone be thinking of investing another cent in this shitshow, when this is what 2.4 trillion dollars got you?
Lets see what happens in about two or three or so weeks. 1/1-1/14 + - Maybe something kinda/very big.
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Those Afghans will be Methodists pretty soon.
Fun Facts: Did you know that the Afghan Hound is the dumbest breed of dog? Yeah, me neither. I thought it was the English Bulldog. The smartest breed is the one you would think- it's the Border Collie. That is one smart dog.
ReplyDeleteWe bought and paid for it. We get to keep it. Take the ladies and the lawyers and the journalists out of the room, however and do what needs to be done.
Hopefully we also focus elsewhere in Afghanistan where it's more amendable,pretty and quiet. And friendly too.
the joys of feminism in Afghanistan
ReplyDeleteIf you were to nullify the male population of Afghanistan between the ages of 16 to 55- the GDP would quadruple, law and order, morals and sanity would improve, the average IQ would increase about 4 points and Afghanistan would have a chance for it's future.
A country like Afghanistan is very poor and often the people are unnecessarily uncomfortable. They are uncomfortable because the males do things to cause it. The females and children go along for the ride. They are being bad patriarchs.
DeleteImagine an Afghanistan where the males amended just a few little things. How much an improvement would it be? Afghanistan is not going to be needing it's own Space agency. but reliable plumbing and lights would go a long way. If they didn't fight and extort and boofoo each other all day. but decided to cooperate with the Americans:
Mining companies could come in and hire and train. And downstream types of processing and manufacturing could open up without being afraid that they would loose all thier investment money. Insurance liability would be affordable. They would build infrastructure to accommodate the resource management. They would pay Afghans to work. They would pay the Afghan government in taxes. And the Afghan government would use those taxes to improve the services. Like garbage collection. Recycling. Power. Water. Schools and Medicine and so on.
Afghans would sell thier legitimate produce. They would have money to improve thier equipment. Send the next generation to school. Improve thier farming. Improve their food processing. they health and mental state would improve.
People there often dont have a balanced or sufficient diet. It brings down thier IQ and they don't think right. They dont feel good. They get disease. The stress level is sustained and this brings down the entire society.
The corruption and immorality of the males is beyond extreme. The males are holding back thier country. Some people are saying that one generation of lost Afghan males would be an improvement. With the youngesters having a better ( perhaps foreign - if the local men can't do the job) patriarchy to look up to.
I do not view them as kings or anything to admire. I am not a cultural marxist. And don't care what they think and have no respect for them at all.
While i'm doing the song and dance.
DeleteI understated this. The corruption in Afghanistan is so extreme that expats can't even explain it because they would be in trouble with the SPLC for hate speech. And nobody would believe you anyway.
"The corruption and immorality of the males is beyond extreme. The males and thier culture are holding back thier country. Some people are saying that one generation of lost Afghan males aged 16-50 would be an improvement for the country. With the youngsters having a better (perhaps foreign-if the local men can't do the job) patriarchy to look up to."
To explore with a thought experiment regarding introducing a foreign patriarchy in Afghanistan to be an improvement over the boofooing extortionist,racketeering, murdering muzzies they have now.
In China there are about 30 million more males that females. India has about 37 million more males than females. The wealthier less wacky parts of the Middle East have bout 13 million more males... or something like that. Some of them are actually half way decent.
The very fact they this severe imbalance of males to females (only with considerably less boofooing) has occurred in those countries does show that they are also not ready to be in charge of anything important. Like the world. Or the South China Sea or international laws and stuff.
You described it great, you should talk about it loud. It is not normal what they are doing...
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