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Afghanistan – State Department Sanctimoniously Laments About ‘Lack Of Female Leaders’
The Hill is channeling State Department 'concerns':
State Department voices concerns over all-male Taliban government
The State Department on Tuesday expressed concerns over the makeup of the new interim Afghan government announced by the Taliban, including the lack of female leaders and the past actions of some of those appointed to top posts.
A State Department spokesperson said in a statement shared with The Hill that although the Taliban “has presented this as a caretaker cabinet,” the U.S. “will judge the Taliban by its actions, not words.”
“We have made clear our expectation that the Afghan people deserve an inclusive government,” the spokesperson added.
The statement went on to note that the list of names announced by the Taliban earlier Tuesday “consists exclusively of individuals who are members of the Taliban or their close associates and no women.”
Well, the 'caretaker' government surely reflects the wishlist of the Pakistani spy service ISI. Its boss had flown to Kabul to get it implemented as soon as possible.
Sure, the U.S. does not like that. But a look at the governments of certain U.S. 'allies' lets me wonder how genuine the 'concern' about a 'lack of female members' really is.
King Salman presides over a cabinet meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. – Arab News
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UAE Cabinet approves 2020 Federal Budget – Emirates 24/7
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This reminds me of the scene in “Life of Brian” where the leader of the group asks “what have the Romans ever done for us?” – and people start telling him:
– The aqueduct
– Sanitation
– Medicine
– Roads
– Irrigation
– Education
– Wine
– Public Baths
– Safe to Walk in the Streets as Night
– Brought Peace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ
Now lets compare Afghanistan (or for that matter Iraq, Libya, or Syria) before the US got involved, when they had a socialist government that provided much of the above in the cities and were trying to spread this across the country. As we can see, the US fails the “what did the Romans ever do for us” test. Then think about what the Chinese bring with the BRI, ticks off a lot of the boxes doesn’t it! The Chinese should write a book on geopolitics about “how to make friends instead of enemies”.
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/afghanistans-socialist-years-the-promising-future-killed-off-by-u-s-imperialism/
Of course the US Borg would not read it, instead they will keep being butt hurt about no longer being allowed to be the unchallenged bully in the schoolyard – “dad, dad, I am not allowed to throw shit kids against the wall anymore!” and whine and whine in the most annoying manner as ex bullies do.
This also reminds me of Anne Applebaum, the inveterate US propagandist Russian hater (and her Russian hating Polish husband), who just cannot stomach one good word about the Soviet Union passing her lips or travelling through her pen. A one-star reviewer of one of her books put the experience of Poland with the Soviet liberation/occupation well (halina s. brown):
“Let’s remember that before the war Poland was a very poor and backward country. Three quarters of the population lived in rural areas, living the lives of poverty or near poverty. The country was governed by a military junta led by Marshal Pilsudski, and political opposition was brutally silenced. My mother went to school hungry as a child, and at fourteen was already working in a Lodz textile factory, with all its unhealthy working conditions. After forty years of “bad communism” three quarters of the population lived in cities, with modest but assured livelihoods and well above poverty level. The illiteracy was completely eliminated, infant mortality plunged, healthcare became a universal right, and access to university education became common. If it was not for that system, my family would be still toiling as proletarians, and I would not have had the life I had during my first 20 years: of superior high school education, high culture, splendid theater, arts, sports, books, and many a thinly veiled contempt, happened.
You also say that the greatly condensed educational opportunities after the war, mostly for people with working class backgrounds, and necessary to rebuild the missing intelligentsia, produced an army of mediocrity. This is a personal opinion, not a scholarly statement. Let me assure you that there was no more mediocrity in that generation in Poland than in any other society. As to my generation: we were anything but mediocre. We were idealistic, full of hope for the post-war future, full of creativity, curious, engaged. I know because I was there. And you were not.”
https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B007WKFMEK/ref=acr_dp_hist_1?ie=UTF8&filterByStar=one_star&reviewerType=all_reviews#reviews-filter-bar
We must continue to seek the out historical truths so that we can judge the world accurately rather than be conned by the Western “Winston Smith’s” who work so hard to have us forget, or even believe their imperialist fairy tails (Niall Ferguson, a friend of Applebaum’s comes to mind). The untold millions who died through the violence, famines, slavery and neoslavery of the Western Empire, and continue to do so, ask of us this simple request – “remember us and remember what we were before the West arrived in our lands”.
Posted by: Roger | Sep 9 2021 17:42 utc | 37
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