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Watching closely. aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/17…
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A president who claims he’s no longer fooled by the US war machine should then drop the charges against #JulianAssange.
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Defense Dept has $780 billion budget and State Dept is $40 billion. State used to have far more power than it does now as military options have been given far more weight than diplomatic ones for years. And a Dept of Peace would deal with domestic as well as international issues.
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This is a whisper now that should have been a shout a while ago. Humanitarian concern over the reality of this exit and how to assuage it has been given short shrift by officialdom too eager to gloss it over.
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Our need for a Dept of Peace is huge. Clearly the US knows how to wage war but we do not know how to wage peace. The limits of the power of brute force are now on full display. We will learn to operationalize the power of soul force or humanity will self-destruct.
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I’m not saying we were there to help women but I’m saying that women were helped. Two things are true here at the same time. Two evils coexist. Willfully downplaying either of them is erasing the suffering and terror of millions of people, itself a form of violence against them.
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20 million women. I’m not saying we shouldn’t leave, but your post completely erases the extraordinary difference for women between Taliban and non-Taliban rule.
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The problem is that with the Taliban in charge, it’s roughly 20 million women now at risk of such things should they decide to leave the house unaccompanied by a male relative, speak to a male non-relative, not wear a burqa or try to go do something such as work outside the home.
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That’s the complicated part. I hear you I really do. But for 20 years women were able to live freely, so to me that means we do have something to show for it: those years of their lives. I’m not even arguing that that’s a reason to stay, given everything else. But it’s so tragic.
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