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.

Aug 17, 2021 · 5:18 AM UTC

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It don’t think it’s glossing over, the US spending billions to kill Afghans over failed ideologies & corporate profits was not making those 20 million women’s lives any better. The problem is you are putting the war & women’s safety together, which is definitely the wrong path!
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Wonder what the women of Afghanistan think about the 15,000 bombs the US dropped on their country the last 2 years? 🤔
Brian Becker
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17 Aug 2021
To the “horrified” corporate media pundits shocked about the “chaos” at the airport in Kabul: the US dropped 15,000 bombs on Afghanistan in the last 2 years. More than 71,000 civilians have been killed directly from the US war since 2001. Where is your outrage about any of that?
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You don’t seem to care about the women who are tortured in the US ally state of Saudi Arabia. Stop justifying continued occupation in Afghanistan.
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I have yet to hear anybody glossing over those Afghan women... but why is the MSM glossing over the lives of American women, who face: the West’s worst health care, rising US poverty, misogyny, declining life expectancy, & endless austerity to pay for failed endless war???
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Tonight I hold 20 million women in prayer. May they be lifted up above the chaos and uncertainty that surrounds them.
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1. When you see the masses of refugees at the borders in the US or in Mediterranean, it is men, young men. In 2015 Germany took massive refugees and the result was that sex crimes have risen tremendously. Germany does not keep ethnic data
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Afghanistan has remained the world's worst place to be a woman throughout the entire occupation as well as the single unhappiest nation on the planet. That's what you've gotten in exchange for hundreds of thousands of civilian corpses. Meanwhile:
NBC News
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17 Aug 2021
BREAKING UPDATE: Taliban announces “amnesty” for all in Afghanistan and urges women to join its government. Women have raised concerns about their future under Taliban, which stripped them of almost all their rights when they last governed the country. nbcnews.to/3iPB9P0
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No offense, but the vast majority of these women have been living under the Burqua for the past 20 years. Kabul provides a small bubble of artificiality in a nation otherwise governed by archaic principles when it comes to women. And this was while we were in the country.
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