Afghanistan

[Mr Kobayashi]

Not on my holiday destinations. My never go east of Greece mantra is getting stronger each year.

Still some places on guided tours.

I expected them to be cancelled

All Tours

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[AliBobbyJ]

I believe the Taliban say 'you may have the watches, but we have the time'.....

If it's true they say that, sadly they're right; if you made it up, then you're right.

 

[idahoblues]

I don’t think there’s anyone out there that is surprised by this. It was always going to end in tears, until the people of that Country can stop the rot from within it will continue to fester

 

[urban genie]

And didn't the USA supply these terrorists with a lot of arms?

Yes and trained them

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

If it's true they say that, sadly they're right; if you made it up, then you're right.

It's an old Afghan proverb, but often attributed to the Taliban

 

[ShedDweller]

The unpalatable truth is that this is why we need spy satellites and stand off weapons...

 

[JOGAMIGMOG]

Hard to revolt against blokes handing out daily public floggings with AK-47s as back up. "They've got the guns but we've got the numbers" was one of the daftest sayings of modern times.

Yep you’re right, it is. But history is littered with tyranny and also with revolution. It’s not impossible.
It’ll never happen though as it seems to me that most women in these countries are happy to dress as they do and be treated as scum. We in the West just don’t get it but we have to accept it for what it is rather than sticking our oar in where it’s not wanted.

 

[city2]

Yep you’re right, it is. But history is littered with tyranny and also with revolution. It’s not impossible.
It’ll never happen though as it seems to me that most women in these countries are happy to dress as they do and be treated as scum. We in the West just don’t get it but we have to accept it for what it is rather than sticking our oar in where it’s not wanted.

We have stuck our oar in that’s the trouble and now left them to defend themselves whilst the yanks and all other countries together could not defeat them.

 

[Chippy_boy]

Yep you’re right, it is. But history is littered with tyranny and also with revolution. It’s not impossible.
It’ll never happen though as it seems to me that most women in these countries are happy to dress as they do and be treated as scum. We in the West just don’t get it but we have to accept it for what it is rather than sticking our oar in where it’s not wanted.

From a purely practical standpoint, you are absolutely correct. It's just too difficult to successfully intervene.

But from a moral standpoint, it is tough to just standby and watch people being treated so terribly and to do nothing simply because some they are the other side of some arbitrary line which we call another country. We are all humans on the same planet.

If you saw a neighbour beating his wife or god-forbid, his kids, I would hope no-one would say "it's up to them what they do in their house/garden". Yet if it's done in another country it's OK? Doesn't sit right with me.

 

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

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It has, and always will be, a fuedal state. The tribes fight for whoever pays the most and they are very, very good it. War is a way of life in Afghanistan and it has been for centuries.

The Russians found out not long ago, like all invading armies before them, and now NATO are finding it out too - there is just no way to win a war in Afghanistan.

Such a tragic waste of life. It's time all the troops were pulled out.

Agree.

I feel so very sorry though for the Afghan people as a whole - shortly to be under the brutal reign of a zealous government.