A Year Of Taliban Rule In Afghanistan

[naomi24]

Under Taliban rule quality of life for women in Afghanistan is deteriorating rapidly, as this link illustrates.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-62535300

I watched a documentary the other day about a women's hospital that has just one female doctor. Only females are allowed to treat females and since girls are no longer educated beyond the age of about 11 or 12, it follows that for women an aspiration to a career in any professional capacity is futile. A thing of the past. The unavoidable consequence of this appalling neglect is that very soon there will be no teachers for women and no access to medical treatment. A truly terrifying prospect.

What can the wider world do? What should it do? Or should it sit by and do nothing?

[youngmafbog]

Nothing we can do. Many have tried and all fail.

The place is a hell hole, always has been, always will.

[Bobbisox1]

It’s those educated women and their daughters that I’d welcome here Naomi, they’d put something back into society, unlike the mainly ‘Men in Dinghy’s ‘

[naomi24]

Very soon there won't be any educated women, sandyRoe.

[davebro]

//What can the wider world do? What should it do? Or should it sit by and do nothing?//

The Russians tried & the West tried (albeit for motives other than the liberation of females) and both were unsuccessful. Afghanistan is under sanctions but I doubt they will have much effect as long as the ruling scum prosper.

[Bobbisox1]

Oi im not identifying as a bloke called Sandy this morning Naomi :0)))))

[naomi24]

Oops! Sorry bobbi. My apologies. I think that came from your avatar. Yours and sandyRoe's are very alike.

[davebro]

why does sandyRoe appear as link? just askin'

[douglas9401]

Umpteen attempts to drive the heathen to the hills and keep him there have failed, possibly due to the rules of war and ultimately, civilised behaviour.

I'm afraid it's up to Afghan women to rise up, slit their oppressors throats in the night and liberate themselves.

Then they can move on.

[Gromit]

A bit late to do anything now.
We were there twenty years and should have been nation building. Instead we sided with the gangsters who took our money. Trump handed it to the Taliban, and we ran away.
The situation is largely a mess of our own making, and we impotent to do anything.

[Bobbisox1]

Yes they are, aren’t they ?

[Bobbisox1]

Naomi I’ve changed mine to the church in our village,

[youngmafbog]

//Trump handed it to the Taliban, and we ran away.//

God you write some tripe sometimes.

That is a complete lie.

[naomi24]

Gromit, //Trump handed it to the Taliban, and we ran away. //

That isn't true. Biden handed it to the Taliban and we did the only thing we could.

[Gromit]

// That isn’t true //

Yes it is.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-sign-historic-deal-taliban-beginning-end-us/story?id=69287465

[naomi24]

Gromit, It isn't true. Read your own link.

//If the Taliban and the government of Afghanistan live up to these commitments, we will have a powerful path forward to end the war in Afghanistan and bring our troops home," Trump said.//

That was when a government still existed in the country - and there was no suggestion of withdrawing troops overnight as Biden did.

[Gromit]

Wrong again Naomi,

Pompeo signed the deal in Feb 2020.
Trump set the deadline for withdrawal as 14 months from then (May 2021).

[sandyRoe]

Why am I being traducein this conversation? I have never been anything other than a decent liberal

[naomi24]

Gromit, //If the Taliban and the government of Afghanistan live up to these commitments, we will have a powerful path forward to end the war in Afghanistan and bring our troops home," Trump said.//

'If' didn't happen. The subsequent disastrous decision was made on Biden's watch. No two ways about that, Gromit ... as much as you would like there to be.

[naomi24]

Sorry, sandyRoe. Explained earlier.

[sandyRoe]

Traduced. ^^^