Reply #22: The Taliban never should have been lifted to power by Reagan/Bush in the first place. [View All]

[Marrah_G]

But since they were, the world should have stepped in and stopped their murder and enslavement of women.

I do not think most of the world understands how horrific Taliban rule was on the women of Afgahnistan.

Imagine watching your daughter or mother or sister dying of a simple illness. Neither of you are allowed to leave the house. You are not allowed to obtain medical attention, because you are females. As she wastes away you try to feed her with the little bit dropped off by neighbors. Since you have no immediate male family members still alive after the war with Russia there is no way to earn money for food. Working is forbidden and leaving the house even to beg is forbidden. Slowly you watch your love one die....

Imagine having a college education, yet you are allowed to do nothing but keep house and have children. Your life is one of seclusion behind painted over glass. Education is forbidden, work is forbidden...

Imagine a life so bad that dousing yourself with gas and lighting yourself on fire seems like the less painful choice.....

Imagine being beaten for the sound of your footsteps being heard, beaten for accidentally showing a speck of skin, imagine being beaten for laughing, imagine being beaten for speaking to a man....imagine being killed for daring to even learn about equality for women.


Would have, could have, should have.

Hindsight is 20/20. What matters now is making sure that Afghanistan does not slip back into this way of life. The world needs to stand up and proclaim loudly that this will not be allowed to happen again.