There is a young woman sheltering under a tree between two busy roads clutching a pile of documents to her chest.
These pieces of paper are more important to Bibi Nazdana than anything in the world: they are the divorce granted to her after a two-year court battle to free herself from life as a child bride.
They are the same papers a Taliban court has invalidated - a victim of the group’s hardline interpretation on Sharia (religious law) which has seen women effectively silenced in Afghanistan’s legal system.
Nazdana’s divorce is one of tens of thousands of court rulings revoked since the Taliban took control of the country three years ago this month.
Guess we shouldn’t have bombed a random country to the point where they’d rather have the Taliban than anything approaching western values since they associate all western values with indiscriminate slaughter
I think you’re confusing America bombing Afghanistan into the ground with the Soviet Union bombing Afghanistan into the ground. Since the Soviets invaded, and the US propped up the proto-Taliban in response, Afghanistan’s government has been fundamentally broken. The US bears a lot of responsibility for that but the invasion of Afghanistan arguably made things better for a brief window.
Who do you think was in charge before the US started bombing them?
The people the us spent millions making sure was in charge to fight those evil commies, who were clearly so much worse than the Taliban, with their equal rights for women and such.
Care to try again?
I think they were saying that the US funded the Taliban to fight the USSR (aka. “commies”)
I don’t think the two are related. I’m pretty sure that the root of the current Islamic rule is from the US funding the mujahideen against the Soviet Union back in the 70s.
Afghanistan isn’t really a cohesive country in the first place. There have been a lot of warring factions in the past few hundred years, both foreign and domestic, and none of them have brought all the people under one flag.
It’s not that they’d rather have the Taliban, it’s that they want to be left alone and they don’t care who’s in Kabul.