Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
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No. I just want respect shown. I want their agony recognized. I want their pain to be visible to us.
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I understand those who think we should have left. I also understand some of those who think we should’ve stayed. What I cannot comprehend is anyone minimizing or glossing over the abject terror of 20 million women.
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There is no comparison, and it does such dishonor to the terror and suffering of millions of women there to suggest that it does.
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You’re projecting onto me that I don’t understand it. I understand it very well and have been as actively promoting it as anybody who is criticizing me right now, I can assure you.
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I’m well aware. I ran for president in order to promote the concept of a Dept of Peace, which is exactly that. But it doesn’t justify minimizing the brutality women have suffered at the hands of the Taliban and will now suffer again. Life is complicated and we can recognize that.
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I don’t understand why you feel the need to deny the tragedy that is going on there. It is a legitimate point that we needed to end the war, but it is not valid to minimize the horror of what those women are going through.
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You don’t have to disagree with that to recognize that over the last 20 years millions of girls and women had opportunities to thrive in life that they did not have under the Taliban and that they will not have now that the Taliban are back.
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Yes, to some extent they did. But I also think anyone who thinks our leaving Afghanistan is some huge blow to the military industrial complex is naive. It was $43B out of a $780B budget; they won't be shaving $43B off now that the war in Afghanistan is over.
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Comparing American women not yet being able to pass the ERA to Afghani women living under Taliban rule is like comparing a cotton ball to a razor blade.
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Bear witness to the agony of others. washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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