Taliban's gonna win Ya'll...

[NAB]

Want this solved? This is how you do it. You give them a country of their own, which is what all the mucking about in that region is really about. Splice Afghanistan and Pakistan in the middle, and graft this heaven-on-earth for them to play in.

Build a wall along the northern border, tell Pakistan and the ISI it's been real and it's been fun, but it hasn't been real fun, and let them have at it. You also give Iran something to think about at the same time.

Central Asia solved.

[Spider]

We should probably go back to the clubs and dragging by hair re women. Would save us sooo much pretense.

[eynon81]

these are the times of purgatory we live in... too much global interconnection to blow a country off the map, too much investment in other cultures not to care about what they do.

The next 200 years are going to be brutally inefficient, highly angry, and not particularly humanitarian from any angle. It will probably end with a massive global war and subsequent cultural realignment

[eynon81]

[eynon81]

[The Dharma Bum]

Here's an interesting fact.

Women had the vote in Afghanistan before the they did in the US.

[The Dharma Bum]

Also the idea that people in the ME and Central Asia do not want democracy is a lie. There are massive protests in favor of democracy and workers rights all of the time in these countries. They don't hate us for our freedoms at all, WE HATE THEIR FREEDOM, which is why we support repressive regimes in their countries. It's to attack democracy and steal their resources while we pay off their oppressors. All for the name of cheap consumer goods.

Thats why they hate us. And it's totally justified imho. We are the major regressive force in the world.

We aren't progressive while they are backward at all.

[Spider]

[The Dharma Bum]

[The Dharma Bum]

Do you have any comments about the consistent, decades long US repression of democracy and support of dictatorships in these countries?