No, we are fighting for an important piece of geostrategic real estate
But since we’re all so concerned about the rights of Afghan women, let’s hear from the horse’s mouth – RAWA – some of the bravest people on earth – women who were standing up the Taliban in the 1990s, getting killed for it, all while the US and its proxies were negotiating with the Taliban and giving the fuckers reach-arounds:
RAWA is highly critical of the NATO war that began in 2001, because of the high rate of casualties among the civilian population. The organization went so far as to threaten to sue United States government for unauthorized use of four photos from their website that were used in propaganda handbills dropped on various cities in Afghanistan during the 2001 invasion.
After the defeat of the Taliban government by US and Afghan Northern Alliance forces, RAWA warned that the Northern Alliance were just fundamentalist and dangerous as the Taliban. They continue to charge that the current government led by President Hamid Karzai has no support in most areas of Afghanistan, and that fundamentalists are enforcing anti-woman laws as they were under the Taliban. These claims are supported by media reports about the Herat government of Ismail Khan, who has created a religious police that forces women to obey strict dress and behavior codes, as well as many reports by Human Rights Watch.
Then the soviet invasion came and they had the audacity to get in the way of empires fighting over real estate. We like to fund the nut jobs when it serves our purpose .
As far as intolerance is concerned. The region is steeped in it. I found this recent conference of dozens of Rabbis discussing the rules to kill non-jews by interesting. I suspect if one of equal size of Muslims discussing the rules to kill non-muslims by would be quite the headline news
“Non-Jews are “uncompassionate by nature” and should be killed in order to “curb their evil inclinations.” “If we kill a gentile who has has violated one of the seven commandments… there is nothing wrong with the murder,” Shapira insisted. Citing Jewish law as his source (or at least a very selective interpretation of it) he declared: “There is justification for killing babies if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us, and in such a situation they may be harmed deliberately, and not only during combat with adults.”
