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03-29-2024, 05:58 AM
#2682
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03-29-2024, 07:34 AM
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TWENTY YEARS AND $2.3 Trillion later we can't even stop the Taliban from stoning women to death.
The Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, announced at the weekend that the group would begin enforcing its interpretation of sharia law in Afghanistan, including reintroducing the public flogging and stoning of women for adultery.
In an audio broadcast on the Taliban-controlled Radio Television Afghanistan last Saturday, Akhundzada said: “We will flog the women … we will stone them to death in public [for adultery]. https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1fa73b6f4d6797791bcdd18910bbccdb3def666b/0_82_4121_2472/master/4121.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=noneView image in fullscreen Hibatullah Akhundzada said: ‘The Taliban’s work did not end with the takeover of Kabul, it has only just begun.’ Photograph: Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty “You may call it a violation of women’s rights when we publicly stone or flog them for committing adultery because they conflict with your democratic principles,” he said, adding: “[But] I represent Allah, and you represent Satan.”
In an audio broadcast on the Taliban-controlled Radio Television Afghanistan last Saturday, Akhundzada said: “We will flog the women … we will stone them to death in public [for adultery]. https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1fa73b6f4d6797791bcdd18910bbccdb3def666b/0_82_4121_2472/master/4121.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=noneView image in fullscreen Hibatullah Akhundzada said: ‘The Taliban’s work did not end with the takeover of Kabul, it has only just begun.’ Photograph: Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty “You may call it a violation of women’s rights when we publicly stone or flog them for committing adultery because they conflict with your democratic principles,” he said, adding: “[But] I represent Allah, and you represent Satan.”
It's a big world out there. No way are we in control of it. In fact the sanctions we have placed on Russia seems to have compelled other countries to find work arounds that are diminishing the soft power we once had. We aren't in control of the world - and never were.
03-29-2024, 12:07 PM
#2685
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We stopped teaching history - or the classics...
https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/jezail2.jpg
A great and glorious thing it is
To learn, for seven years or so,
The Lord knows what of that and this,
Ere reckoned fit to face the foe—
The flying bullet down the Pass,
That whistles clear: "All flesh is grass."
Three hundred pounds per annum spent
On making brain and body meeter
For all the murderous intent
Comprised in "villainous saltpetre".
And after?—Ask the Yusufzaies
What comes of all our 'ologies.
A scrimmage in a Border Station—
A canter down some dark defile—
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail—
The Crammer's boast, the Squadron's pride,
Shot like a rabbit in a ride!
No proposition Euclid wrote
No formulae the text-books know,
Will turn the bullet from your coat,
Or ward the tulwar's downward blow.
Strike hard who cares—shoot straight who can—
The odds are on the cheaper man.
One sword-knot stolen from the camp
Will pay for all the school expenses
Of any Kurrum Valley scamp
Who knows no word of moods and tenses,
But, being blessed with perfect sight,
Picks off our messmates left and right.
With home-bred hordes the hillsides teem.
The troopships bring us one by one,
At vast expense of time and steam,
To slay Afridis where they run.
The "captives of our bow and spear"
Are cheap, alas! as we are dear.
Arithmetic on the Frontier
https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/jezail2.jpg
A great and glorious thing it is
To learn, for seven years or so,
The Lord knows what of that and this,
Ere reckoned fit to face the foe—
The flying bullet down the Pass,
That whistles clear: "All flesh is grass."
Three hundred pounds per annum spent
On making brain and body meeter
For all the murderous intent
Comprised in "villainous saltpetre".
And after?—Ask the Yusufzaies
What comes of all our 'ologies.
A scrimmage in a Border Station—
A canter down some dark defile—
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail—
The Crammer's boast, the Squadron's pride,
Shot like a rabbit in a ride!
No proposition Euclid wrote
No formulae the text-books know,
Will turn the bullet from your coat,
Or ward the tulwar's downward blow.
Strike hard who cares—shoot straight who can—
The odds are on the cheaper man.
One sword-knot stolen from the camp
Will pay for all the school expenses
Of any Kurrum Valley scamp
Who knows no word of moods and tenses,
But, being blessed with perfect sight,
Picks off our messmates left and right.
With home-bred hordes the hillsides teem.
The troopships bring us one by one,
At vast expense of time and steam,
To slay Afridis where they run.
The "captives of our bow and spear"
Are cheap, alas! as we are dear.
03-29-2024, 04:24 PM
#2687
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"Pole position in geopolitics"? LOL.
TWENTY YEARS AND $2.3 Trillion later we can't even stop the Taliban from stoning women to death.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-d...et-with-horror
It's a big world out there. No way are we in control of it. In fact the sanctions we have placed on Russia seems to have compelled other countries to find work arounds that are diminishing the soft power we once had. We aren't in control of the world - and never were.
TWENTY YEARS AND $2.3 Trillion later we can't even stop the Taliban from stoning women to death.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-d...et-with-horror
It's a big world out there. No way are we in control of it. In fact the sanctions we have placed on Russia seems to have compelled other countries to find work arounds that are diminishing the soft power we once had. We aren't in control of the world - and never were.
If people want to stone other people in their country to death, let them.
But if the Taleban tries to take over India, that's geopolitics.
03-29-2024, 04:25 PM
#2688
In a land of unicorns
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Position: Whale FO
Posts: 6,595
There is a reason Trump met with Putin and Kim (and obviously just like everything else that loser did, gained nothing).
03-29-2024, 04:27 PM
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Taleban and Afghanistan had nothing to do with geopolitics. Geopolitics is when a country tries to take over another country and destabilize a whole region. Afghans were never about that, and going there was stupidity.
If people want to stone other people in their country to death, let them.
But if the Taleban tries to take over India, that's geopolitics.
If people want to stone other people in their country to death, let them.
But if the Taleban tries to take over India, that's geopolitics.
lack of self awareness and self control seem to be a consistent trait of those subject to RU propaganda……interesting
03-29-2024, 04:27 PM
#2690
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Ready? I agree with you.
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