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In reply to the discussion: Afghan girls poisoned in second anti-school attack [View all]happyslug
(14,779 posts)23. And how do you suggest solving that problem, by killing them?
My point is simple, to have peace we need the support of the Afghan Peasants. To get that support we have to give them what they want. The Alternative is Genocide. Which do you support? It is an unpleasant choice, but one we have to make and will make sooner or later (and Genocide is NOT a real option).
Thus sooner or later we have to accept what these peasants want. That is what Pakistan did to its part of the same people on its side of the border (and what the British did in the same area when Britain ruled India and Pakistan) and even Stalin did when he was ruler of Russia and had the greatest say in Afghan politics.
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I know this doesn't help, but a boy's school was torched in Baghlan province last week.
Prometheus Bound
May 2012
#4
No, the fight over who PROVIDES this service, which is the KEY to winning a Civil War
happyslug
May 2012
#9
Bullshit. That area is rife with misogynistic, ignorant people who've oppressed women for centuries
riderinthestorm
May 2012
#17
We cannot solve the problem. We must leave this wasteland of cultural ignorance
riderinthestorm
May 2012
#37
As I've posted before, thiis reminds me of the Saudis keeping girls in a burning school because
libinnyandia
May 2012
#6
Wars are fought over economics not culture, Culture is used a propaganda only
happyslug
May 2012
#24
So when the Viet Cong did the same thing during Tet, it was because of Relgion???
happyslug
May 2012
#15
I imagine that would also validly apply to philosophical extremes, political extremes...
LanternWaste
May 2012
#16
t seems that with so many forms of extremism having wrought so much damage over so long a period of
LanternWaste
May 2012
#25
This is a terrible thing these men have done, but stop the hate and ignorant hyperbole. please.
redqueen
May 2012
#26
Gynocide. A reminder of what Afghanistan will be once the world ignores it again.
McCamy Taylor
May 2012
#32
I'm sorry but I just don't believe that there are all that many people who believe that.
drm604
May 2012
#35
Under the guise of cultural relativity, there are certainly DUers who are "apologists"
riderinthestorm
May 2012
#38
Oh FFS! I'm a veteran of probably every burqa thread on DU and there are HUNDREDS
riderinthestorm
May 2012
#46
They are defending the disappearing of women in society by virtual shrouding
riderinthestorm
May 2012
#48