Tolerance of systemic violence against women can’t be justified in the name of anti-imperialism, helping other human beings isn’t “a savior complex,” and leaving the most powerless & desperate people to fend for themselves in the hour of their agony isn’t political sophistication

Aug 15, 2021 · 4:41 AM UTC

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Are you describing the United States? Are you calling on the military to overthrow the US government?
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We didn't leave them to fend for themselves. We spent 20 years arming and training their forces. They've rejected our vision for their country. Vanquishing a foreign culture at the barrel of a gun is the colonial model, rarely successful barring acts of genocide.
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Wait… are you justifying us staying in Afghanistan? Holy hell.
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Marianne the US military is leaving entire caches of weapons for the Taliban. The US created and perpetuates this situation. What makes you think they're going to solve it?
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Ironic Marianne, because you support a US Admin who is now pushing hard to mandate face-coverings - BANNING people from showing their faces - both Women & Men. And forced #vaccines. Have to laugh at the righteous indignation of the Western human rights complex on #Afghanistan.
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Marianne, as former Prez candidate, you should know your Liberal/feminist virtue-signalling on women in #Afghanistan is same as Neoliberal/Left & #woke #NATO used to prolong a pointless 20-yr ‘culture’ & Opium War there. More woke bombs on way? Learn more: 21stcenturywire.com/2016/04/…
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Absolutely nobody would oppose our intervention in Afghanistan if ending systemic violence against women and helping human beings is what we were doing there. It isn't. issuechronicle.com/what-abou…
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Caitlin Johnstone
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15 Aug 2021
It is the wokest of feminisms to want an empire whose interventionism is literally always disastrous to re-invade Afghanistan and occupy their land for generations and keep murdering anyone who tries to fight back in order to force them all to espouse our white liberal values.
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