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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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
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Replying to @sellmestuff
Unbelievable.

Aug 17, 2021 · 5:31 AM UTC

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Odd that there weren't many tears shed for the women & girls of Libya the "secular", socialist state that enjoyed the highest living standard on the continent of Africa until Obama destroyed it. What do you think our Jihadist allies in Syria will do to women if they take over?
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I mean, Marianne, we killed a million people in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past 20 years, including hundreds of thousands of women and children. It will take some pretty full-on terror campaigns for the Taliban to match that kind of number.
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Hey Marianne, what about the thousands of women and civilians that the US military, to say nothing of contractors, murdered, raped, etc.? The invading military was treating women terribly. It is tragic what will happen of course, though the responders remarks about different 1/2
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Tens of thousands were killed, hundreds were tortured in CIA black sites, and hundreds of thousands displaced by American bombs. How dare you hijack this point in history to claim your moral outrage.
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Imperial wars inflict disproportionate violence on women, US wars are no different. US occupation inflicted insane horror and unimaginable violence on women in Afghanistan. no doubt that will be true under the taliban, but let's not pretend colonialism is a pro woman movement.
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Marianne, the Boutique Socialist kids bothering you live in their own little reality distortion field.
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What is unbelievable is your apparent belief in the benevolence of the US empire. This country is evil; anyone who doesn't see that is in denial.
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Hes absolutelt right. You are a oerfect example that a woman cam still be a dumbass even with a world class education.
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