What you don’t understand is you’re repeating a goal shifting talking point to ensure we continue occupying a foreign country for another decade or more.

I'm shifting nothing.

Tonight I reminded my son that you said we need a "Dept of Peace". What do you think we should do ‽

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.

because 1) they all are not in abject terror, afghans are by and large rural and religious and do not share our values; and 2) the horror of continued US occupation far outweighs the horror of misogyny, which we face here and around the world and must organize to defeat

Unbelievable.

listen I'm not down with all the people dumping on you. but it's a mistake to assume the US was ever there to help women. Did a certain *class* of them benefit? sure, and I'm all for bringing as many as want to come to the US. But it's not enough to justify the horrors we wrought

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.