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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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
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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.

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I mean I respect that you care about these women, but with our whole operation there being a sham I'm not sure what you think could have been done to fix it. You're asking the arsonists to put out the fire
Hessam Akhlaghpour @theHessam
17 Aug 2021
This past weekend, I re-read “No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes” by @Anand_Gopal_ for the 2nd time. What an amazing and insightful book. Here is one of the most eye-opening things I learned from it: 🧵
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Stop doubling down on this imperialist talking point.
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Unless there are women at Raytheon.
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You can’t be serious. We were there to bolster billionaires at Raytheon and the kickbacks politicians receive from military contractors.
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So..Collateral damage of women and children is a necessary evil to save some women from the Collaraterol damage of the damage we are "supposedly" there to control..For how many years now? Warmongering word salad. Typical Democrat "acess" to freedom or whatever they are peddling.
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