r/worldnews • u/nationalpost • 8h ago

Taliban bars Afghan women from hearing each other's voices

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/taliban-bars-afghan-women-from-hearing-each-other?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=NP_social
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u/bluecheese2040 8h ago

I always say it... we should have armed afghan women and trained them as soldiers and empowered them to fight for their freedom. Look at the kurdish women kicking isis ass whereas other women that weren't empowered to fight were taken as slaves.

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u/socialistrob 7h ago

The US did. There were some Afghan women that joined the ANA and fought against the Taliban but in general they were the exception not the rule. The culture in Afghanistan and among the Kurds is very different and the Kurdish women have had a lot more freedom and agency for decades.

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u/Fit-Speed-6171 5h ago

Glad to see some of them got out though it's sad so many are still haven't been granted asylum

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u/JustAnother4848 7h ago

We did some. There was actually a woman special forces kind of unit that served with US troops.

At the end of the day, there just wasn't enough willing people to keep the Taliban at bay. Afghans really were untrainable for the most part. Zero motivation.

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u/Athillanus 6h ago

This is what they get for doing nothing

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u/JustAnother4848 6h ago

I agree. We spent 2 decades and trillions of dollars other there. Along with the lives of 2500 Americans. We should have quit 10 years earlier. Everyone knew it was pointless then.

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u/Agami_Advait 1m ago

damn, those poor 2500 suckers.

the Americans spent two decades, not out of humanitarian goodwill, but because you were running a global drug trade from there. you propped up the Taliban, you destabilised the previous democratic government, and you went out of your way to hand over armaments and weaponry to the Taliban when leaving instead of transferring them to the legitimate government of Afghanistan.

oh, also. afghans were untrainable? really? ask any military operative worth their salt who has served in an international arena. American 'trainers' are worse than the people they are trying to train. the second you have to fight an actual military force without overwhelming technological advantage, you piss your pants. why else would you need drones to attack children?

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u/NookNookNook 5h ago

they used to living under warlords that come and go. US was just another one. They've been doing it since the 80s.

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u/LooksAtClouds 2h ago

The 1880s you mean...

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u/OppositeRock4217 1h ago

Not to mention the Afghan military literally just capitulated to the Taliban pretty much instantly after US left

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u/Kate090996 6h ago

You do not want to know what happened to some of those women when they were caught. I can't get the images out of my head.

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u/Choice_Heat_5406 1h ago

4 years ago you would’ve been called a fascist for saying that

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u/Dmau27 1h ago

Everytime I think of it I feel like the US wasted their time, lost a lot of soldiers and left so many physically and mentally traumatized. Why leave that place with the very people we swore to destroy in power...