Women's rights suppressed, LGBTQ oppression, hairy, bearded men with guns...

[Aristus]

Shit, Afghanistan is starting to look a lot like the United States...

[Irish_Dem]

1. We did a great job exporting the American way of life.

[revmclaren]

4. Oh please....

The middle east has been a cradle of oppression and prejudice for thousands of years. We brought nothing to afganistan that they weren't already well versed in.

[Irish_Dem]

5. It was the use of irony to mock the "US is spreading democracy" slogan.

But actually the US and Taliban have quite a few traits in common.

[revmclaren]

8. Understand. But I can guarantee most sane (Democratic/progressive)

men in the US treat women a thousand percent better than in Afghanistan. But we do have a long way to go.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. That is rather underplaying how much it's going to suck for women and LGBTQ folks

in Afghanistan under the Taliban.

I know it's in jest, but it's still WAY better in the USA, by orders of magnitude, and the peril those people are facing is not really worthy of any sort of mirth IMHO.

[Aristus]

3. The scary thing is, for all their prime-time-ready hand-wringing, the Republicans actually want for

us what is going on over in Afghanistan. Oppressive, fanatically religious totalitarianism.

[walkingman]

6. I consider the Christian Taliban as America's greatest threat.

[Mosby]

7. Afghan girl.

Link to tweet

[Rustyeye77]

16. She's right...no one care enough about you.

She will probably be caught and become some sex slave for one of the mullahs…

Or die.

If I was faced with that choice, I would rather die.

[maxsolomon]

9. Too soon. Think before you post.

There is a qualitative difference in the degree and extremity of the societal Misogyny in the US and Afghanistan, and you know it.

[ansible]

11. I don't know, there's a lot of wilful ignorance when it comes to the Middle East's history

[maxsolomon]

13. Even just the history of pre-9/11 Afghanistan.

I joined DU just prior to 9/11 (August 2001); I've been shocked at the lack of institutional memory here of late.

The Taliban were awful in the late 90s, just stunningly brutal and oppressive. They hosted Al Qaeda and facilitated the 9/11 attack by doing so. They deserved everything they got in 2002, and worse.

Our endless occupation increased the literacy rate in the nation, and lowered the infant mortality rate. It allowed Afghan women a taste of freedom, albeit temporary. Music was played again.

This is not funny.

[Rustyeye77]

17. No, it's damn not funny..

These poor people with no future.

Their hopes and dreams gone.

[cinematicdiversions]

19. This is more a South Asian thing

Honestly it really isn't much different in say Bangladesh for rural woman.

[Aristus]

12. Possibly.

But I've had enough "it can't happen here" to last a lifetime...

[Sympthsical]

10. I will be gay in Texas any day of the week

And twice in church on Sunday.

As a gay man, I loathe when people make comparisons between America and fundamentalist nations in other parts of the world. It's facile and unserious.

Watching teenagers get hanged in Iran by the government. Yeah, my teenage years in an Irish Catholic family were just like that!

Except for the part where it was nowhere even remotely close.

[Treefrog]

15. Thank you.

[IronLionZion]

14. We could also play the game Republican or Taliban

with views on lots of political and social issues.

[Warpy]

18. Yeah, neckbeards and WalMart camo

Too bad we can't arrange a swap, we send them our neckbeards and they send us the women who have or want education.

Looks like a good deal to me.