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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 02:07 PM Original message |
Afghan Women Worse off Since Taliban Removed from Power |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
1. This is important, because after the revenge argument, the treatment |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 02:31 PM Response to Original message |
2. K&R |
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RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 02:32 PM Response to Original message |
3. we should just airlift women and children out of that shit hole |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 02:35 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Ah, yes, bombing for peace... |
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RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 02:40 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. an airlift isn't kidnapping, but don't let this fact stop you from more bullshit |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 02:41 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Some are. |
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RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 02:42 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. it's good to know you know the opinion of all Afghani women |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 02:43 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I know the polls of the opinions of Afghani women. |
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ieoeja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 02:56 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. "Afghan" women. Afghani is their currency. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 03:00 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Ahem. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 03:04 PM Response to Reply #3 |
14. How about we just get the fuck out and let them work on their own problems |
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RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 04:49 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. that's fine with me, actually. my initial remark was frustration and sympathy |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 02:59 PM Response to Original message |
10. We're there "liberating" them..just like the Greeks, Romans, Brits, and Russians before us. K&R |
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timeforpeace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 03:03 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Gut reaction, it's counterintuitive b.s. But if it gets us out of Afghanistan, roll with it. |
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Flaneur (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
12. Here's what one progressive Afghan women's group has to say: |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 03:09 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Afghan women are reduced to pawns in the game. Expendable pawns. |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 03:05 PM Response to Original message |
15. save this article to show anyone who uses that tired old propaganda about |
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libodem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 03:10 PM Response to Original message |
17. What Laura Bush's pet project? |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 05:00 PM Response to Original message |
19. Afghan women have been worse off since 1979, when the CIA started supporting |
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Mudoria (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 05:07 PM Response to Original message |
20. Yes indeed, they were much better off under the Taliban... |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-08-09 05:20 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. That image plus war is what they are faced with now. |
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