-- More than 2,000 people dead - powerful earthquake strikes western Afghanistan, 15

[MJCronin]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/07/world/afghanistan-herat-earthquake-devastation-intl-hnk/index.html

The TALIBAN are asking for international/US help ....

MJCronin
Sr. Process Engineer

 

[dik]

We could ask them to observe women's rights, in exchange... but it won't happen.

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[TugboatEng]

The West: Western culture is a pox on the world.

Also The West: We're going to need to to adopt western culture before we render any assistance.

 

[dik]

Sorry guy, it's human decency...

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[TugboatEng]

Rendering aid or demanding that they conform to your world view?

 

[dik]

Yup...

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[dik]

Pretty much sums it up...

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[MJCronin]

Can we just supply humanitarian aid ?... Food, water, blankets, medicine, tents

All stamped with: US RED CROSS "Gift of the American People" .....

... I am sure someone will complain bitterly about this ....

MJCronin
Sr. Process Engineer

 

[dik]

That just perpetuates the 'ugliness'... humanitarian has to start from within...

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[Alistair_Heaton]

Any aid will just go to the war lords.

 

[dik]

another reason not to assist.

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[hokie66]

The US has enough on its hands already. Humanitarian aid is good, but there are so many takers...

 

[1503-44]

Good luck with that. Republican house. Gov closed. Out to lunch for the foreseeable future.

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[SnTMan]

You say that like it's a bad thing...

LOL

The problem with sloppy work is that the supply FAR EXCEEDS the demand

 

[SWComposites]

The Taliban can/should ask their neighbor countries to help. Not the USA’s problem.

 

[Just Some Nerd]

I feel like you lot need to find a place to have your political discussions that doesn't involve derailing the threads immediately.

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[dik]

Ya... keep Republicans and Democrats out of the discussion.

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[IRstuff]

Not all the Mujahedeen turned into Taliban; that was civil war that we didn't bother to take sides on. Nothing new there.

> We supported the Shah until the Iranians revolted

> We supported Saddam against the Iranians until he got too big for his britches.

> We supported and still support the Saudis even though they've never really disavowed all their terrorist surrogates and they assassinate journalists at will.

> We supported Imran Khan until he decided to not support Ukraine, as seemingly do a lot of people on this site.

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[dik]

Henry Kissinger, the ‘good guy’ war criminal, put it succinctly, “It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.” Truer words were never spoken.

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[CWB1]

The US was friends with Taliban against Russia, then came back to shoot up the place for 20 years over something the Saudis did.

That's a pretty blatant mischaracterization of events and extremely disrespectful of the thousands of killed in Afghanistan and on 9/11. You conveniently forgot about the govt-sponsored terrorist training camps, decades of protection and arms given to terrorists, purchases of WMDs, and many other issues that led to ousting the Taliban from power. You also conveniently forgot that our troops were quickly welcomed as liberators with few issues for most of the first decade until politics changed our role from an active police force to passive target.