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2021-08-18 Afghanistan

Taliban kill woman for not wearing burqa on same day it vows to honor women's rights

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Posted by Clavique Chanter2227 2021-08-18 07:54|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top
File under: Taliban/IEA

#1 "We respect your right to wear a burqa"

Posted by Frank G 2021-08-18 08:35|| 2021-08-18 08:35|| Front Page Top

#2 "We respect your right to die when we shoot you."

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-08-18 08:59|| 2021-08-18 08:59|| Front Page Top

#3 I know I sound heartless and a SOB, but now is exactly the time to harden yourself against news coming out of AFG about outrages.

Take a step back, learn a little more about the disposition of forces, disassociate from the Pakis completely. Then use a 'WMD's in Kabul!' type alarm to suddenly nuke the shit out of it. Nuke it between May and September when the circulating hot winds will carry radiation into Pakistain too.

Let China pick up the pieces.

Meanwhile put your 'top men' on explaining why. I shall bet the American people will elect you of their own volition next time. The world will walk softly around American interests for another decade, no shit.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-18 09:41|| 2021-08-18 09:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Let China pick up the pieces.

Let China deal with them.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-18 09:44|| 2021-08-18 09:44|| Front Page Top

#5 The Chinese are a race of gamblers. They can make a bad bet with the best of them.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-18 09:53|| 2021-08-18 09:53|| Front Page Top

#6 She was 'Lightfooted' or 'Chicagoed'?

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-08-18 10:43|| 2021-08-18 10:43|| Front Page Top

#7 I can't help thinking that if the Afghans really wanted to be a civilized, modern democracy they could have. They certainly weren't willing to fight for it. Maybe they just don't know any better but twenty years of our best effort, such as it was, could not convince them otherwise. So now they return to Islam in one of its most barbaric manifestations.

Here is my proposed foreign policy for Afghanistan in particular and the Muslim world in general: No need to nuke them. We don't go there and they don't come here. None of them. No exceptions.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-08-18 11:41|| 2021-08-18 11:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, and if the Chinese want it, they can have it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-08-18 11:43|| 2021-08-18 11:43|| Front Page Top

#9 It is not a contradiction, at least in their eyes. They promised to respect women's rights under Islamic law.

if the Afghans really wanted to be a civilized, modern democracy they could have.

I would rate that as UnPossible at this point in time and Afghanistan's development. Making a nation-state out of a collection of warring tribes and clans is a long-term project. Based on watching people try, speeding up that process does not seem to be possible.

Posted by SteveS 2021-08-18 12:11|| 2021-08-18 12:11|| Front Page Top

#10 They didn't really want it is what I'm saying. So they can't have it. That's why I'm not crying about Afghan women having to wear burqas. It's just another sob story about which there is nothing I can do.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-08-18 12:31|| 2021-08-18 12:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Should China prevail Let them throw money down that money hole. We have all heard this tune before.

Posted by Dale 2021-08-18 13:16|| 2021-08-18 13:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Boy - they are really strict about their 'being outdooes without a mask' policy!

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-08-18 13:32|| 2021-08-18 13:32|| Front Page Top

#13 CF with a strong 'Snark 'O The Day' candidate!

Posted by Raj 2021-08-18 13:41|| 2021-08-18 13:41|| Front Page Top

#14 Purple haired soccer dyke has nothing to say. Whuttasurprise...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-18 13:47|| 2021-08-18 13:47|| Front Page Top

#15 so they shot them on the LEFT i guess huh!

Posted by Sluse Grealet9429 2021-08-18 17:27|| 2021-08-18 17:27|| Front Page Top

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