Spread wars all over the world, grab the resources, then say you are protecting women. The Liberal internationalists.
Photos before US war in Afghanistan and after.
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Wealthy white liberal interventionist feminism.
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ReplyDeleteLOL!
But why do we always have to blame the Americans?
ReplyDeleteWasn't it the British in the late 1800s who created Afghanistan, thus lumping all sort of ethnic groups together?
Wasn't it the British in the late 1800s who created Afghanistan, thus lumping all sort of ethnic groups together?
ReplyDeleteIndia was the "jewel" of the British Empire. The Brits did everything possible to prevent losing it, in this case to the Russian Empire, their chief contender in the region. This started a "thing" with Russia that continues to this day. The British, French and Dutch were all imperial forces in the day of colonization and that thinking persists. A lot of what's happening now has its antecedents in that, and lot of the problems have arisen owing to lines on maps that were drawn in that context and remain. So it is not just US hegemony that is involved.
There's a great line in the comedy film-noir movie Pulp by Michael Caine's character where he is asked if he is a communist, and he replies, "No, I'm an imperialist lackey."
DeleteThe "before" picture is from 1972. That's LONG "before" the US intervention. Extremely misleading. Wouldn't it be fairer to blame religious fundamentalism for the plight of women in these countries?
ReplyDeleteOperation Cyclone was the code name for the United States Central Intelligence Agency program to arm and finance the mujahideen in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989, prior to and during the military intervention by the USSR in support of its client, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Wikipedia
DeleteWahhabism was spread at behest of West during Cold War: Mohammed bin Salman | The Express Tribune https://t.co/vhZRxxa5wm
DeleteThe mini-skirt photo is from the 1970s, that is, under the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan, so it is hardly fair to say that it was from before the Americans' war. The Soviet Union invaded in 1979, eh, and the US only began funding the Mujaheddin in early 1980s (initially at very low levels).
ReplyDeleteYou can fairly put bombing massacres of Pashtun people at the US's door, but not the end of miniskirts.
From what I've read, the West promoted militant Islam, some of which you can read in the articles above.
DeleteThe UK also backed the Muslim Brotherhood. In the Middle East the West backed the theocracies, rather than the democracies, because in democracmtic nations people want a better deal on the oil, like they did in Iran too, until its democratic government was overthrown by Britain and the US.
I blame the West for Jihadist Islam.
Google for Pdf.
DeleteWhose Monster? A Study in the Rise to Power of alQaeda and the Taliban
This article says that Pakistan funded a lot of the extremist Islamic groups. These groups are tribes living in resource rich areas and they are fighting over the resources.
DeleteWhat a world!?
If women over there were under US influence some would be doing porno... not wearing burkhas...
ReplyDeleteThe audio kicks in after a couple of seconds.
ReplyDeleteHillary Clinton : We created Al Qaeda
Yeah she’s credible…
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