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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow awful can the Taliban be if someone holds on to a flying plane to avoid it ?
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ansible
(1,718 posts)Pretty bad.
Haggard Celine
(16,843 posts)as I was watching the plane take off. That's complete despair.
Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)All the young women and little girls.
I wonder how many will kill themselves.
WarGamer
(12,427 posts)Thousands of women committed suicide rather than take the abuse that was imminent.
Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)We needed to.have flown a lot of them.out
Celerity
(43,286 posts)https://web.archive.org/web/20080208060341/https://www.psywar.org/postcards.php
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This one is addressed to "Frau Edith Lenk, Falkenstein, Vogtld." Vogtland is an area in the easternmost part of Germany in Saxony / Sachsen.
"If you want to avoid useless suffering pay attention to the following instructions:
1.) Choose a strong cord, about the strength of a clothes-line. A thin one cuts and hurts.
2.) Tie the knot of the bow in a way that the bow will not tighten the cord. The cord must go unhindered through the bow.
3.) Grease the bow and cord well to achieve a sleek fastening of the noose.
4.) Avoid getting strangled before jumping, or you will have to struggle longer.
5.) Secure a full jump. This guarantees a break of the neck instead of getting strangled. Climb a chair or a table and fix the noose high enough (use a hook in the ceiling or wall), so that your feet will hang free after the jump.
6.) Put the neck through the noose. Make sure that the knot and bow are behind the neck, not in front of the throat.
7.) Jump courageously. If you want to be sure, then jump as high and bold as you can to fall down near your jumping location, as if you wanted to make a joyful jump from the diving board into the water. The stronger the leap, the safer the break of the neck.
Don't hesitate!
The Horst Wessel standard is calling!
Hail Hitler!"
Runningdawg
(4,516 posts)Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)These young women are facing a bad life.
No life.
WarGamer
(12,427 posts)If you mean beating women for showing their ankles, throwing gay men from rooftops, practicing Sharia Law which dictates "HOW" a man may/must beat his wife, keeping women uneducated and pregnant, beating men on the streets for inappropriate beards, burning down churches and crucifying religious leaders...
If that sounds awful... then yeah, they're pretty awful.
marble falls
(57,063 posts)It's just plain not our fucking fight.
When the soviets got tired of the USSR, they brought it down in four days with a very, very few casualties.
When the Afghanis reach their tipping point, they will dump the Taliban.
NH Ethylene
(30,807 posts)The whole thing was just a huge disaster in slow motion. There is some blame to be laid on the feeble and corrupt army, which seemingly laid back and let others protect them for years, and then gave up without any fight at all.
I recall the news reports so many years ago of the Afghan girls having their first chance to go to school. They were as heart-warming as the return of oppression is heart-wrenching.
BannonsLiver
(16,352 posts)Ive been wondering if some of them actually thought they could just hang on.
PSPS
(13,588 posts)Bad things happen in the world. It's sad, to be sure, but sometimes you can't do anything about it.
mainer
(12,022 posts)If you're going to die for your liberty, why not put up a fight? If only there was the will. They certainly had the weapons.
Johonny
(20,829 posts)I think many see them facing death.
Quixote1818
(28,927 posts)that was. They might have thought it was like grabbing onto a bus or a train.
ansible
(1,718 posts)The flight crews are going to have nightmares for the rest of their lives
treestar
(82,383 posts)who would ask for asylum elsewhere, but the country as a whole has no problem with living under the Taliban.
Though we complain, we are lucky to be born American. And we took in asylees and refugees well until the TFG administration.