So now they want to talk about human rights issues in Afghanistan?
The New York Times writes today that some human rights groups are concerned about the future of women and girls in Afghanistan after the US pulls out in 2014. Seems that they would have thought about that before now;
Over the past two days, women’s rights advocates and others have expressed outrage over comments by the Afghan justice minister in which he claimed that women’s shelters encouraged “immorality and prostitution,” according to news reports.
That’s funny because Malalai Joya, the former Afghan legislator, has been trolling her way across the country telling Americans that Afghanistan would be better off without the Americans there. For a peek at what Afghanistan will look like after the Taliban take the country back, let’s look at what they’re doing in Pakistan. They’re preventing children from getting polio shots, holding their futures hostage until the CIA ends their drone program according to the New York Times;
[Hafiz Gul Bahadur] said the decision had been taken by the shura-e-mujahedeen, a council that unites the myriad jihadi factions in the area, including Taliban, Qaeda and Punjabi extremists.
The announcement, made over the weekend, is a blow to polio vaccination efforts in Pakistan, one of just three countries where the disease is still endemic, accounting for 198 new cases last year — the highest rate in the world, followed by Afghanistan and Nigeria.
The Global Post reports that Afghan children are being used as weapons already as the US is focused on withdrawal more than combating the Taliban’s unique strategies to undermine good order in Afghanistan;
Hundreds of students have fallen ill in recent weeks after their drinking water was apparently spiked and poison was sprayed into their classrooms.
The attacks have intensified the debate about the Taliban’s reemergence and possible return to power. When the fundamentalist movement ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, girl’s education was severely restricted and only around one million children in total were enrolled in schools at all.
The media is focused on US troops accidentally burning Korans, urinating on corpses and mugging for the cameras, and now that it’s apparent that our whole reason for going into Afghanistan – removing the Taliban – has failed, mainly due to this administration’s signals that we won’t be committed to the destruction of the Taliban and their allies, the Taliban isn’t bothering to disguise their intentions to rule with an iron fist. Back to the 1990s.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Terror War
When we’ve taken the fight to, and essentially checked Islamic terrorism…..then I’ll give a damn about eliminating the Taliban and supporting Afghan human rights.
Closer to “Back to the 1690’s”
They didn’t do a thing during the Soviet occupation. They didn’t want to be defunded.
They didn’t do a thing during the rule of the Taliban. Because they had to support a President’s prerogative to have oral sex with interns.
They didn’t do a thing during our occupation of Afghanistan, because they knew we were doing the right things: health, education, protection, promotion of womens’ inalienable rights. So they invested themselves in Code Pink and Cindy Sheehan because all men are dolts.
Now they are concerned. But they won’t do anything because they don’t know how. Producing results in a human being’s life is infinitely harder than producing a slick sales brochure and discussing where to get free Mexican illegals to trim the rose bushes.
This is a Darwin moment. Until the Afghanis figure out where all their misery is coming from — AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT — they will continue to be miserable. All the humanitarian handwringing will accomplish exactly nothing until that happens.
Burning of Koran: BAD
Throwing of acid onto woman’s face for trying to get an education: GOOD
This place is fucked.
I am all for the “until the Job is done” approach, but then who am I to say anything. I’m sure it won’t be demoralizing at all to have the Taliban take control again.