Julnar:
Sadly, although I share your sentiments as to the reasons WHY our squaddies SHOULD be doing what they are in Afghanistan, it would be naiive to believe that that IS the reason.
Our squaddies are only there because they were sent by spineless politicians who were dancing and twitching on strings pulled by our American cousins.
None of those politicians could nowadays give you a justifiable answer as to why the squaddies are still there. It's only because they can't find a withdrawal strategy to implement which wouldn't result in "loss of face".
Meanwhile, those women will continue to exist without rights which we in the West take for granted. They will continue to be persecuted and oppressed by their own menfolk so long as Sharia Law is the order of the day. They will accordingly always be treated inhumanely as a result of the male dominance which is part and parcel of Muslim society. And that will continue long after our squaddies have left, with God knows how many dead, just as the Russians found to their cost not so many years ago.