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The US is not invincible. If Afghanistan can defeat it so can others in the region. Freedom isn’t free and liberation always comes at a heavy price (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by PanArab@lemm.ee to c/mena@lemm.ee

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can I ask a sincere question without being banned? I am not in support of american imperialism.

as far as I am aware as a westerner - the taliban has had a resurgence across afganistan. Has this been a positive or negative for the country?

Obviously america leaving the middle east after waging a war means - less war, presumably? But since then, have conditions improved at all?

[+] PanArab@lemm.ee -7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It is their country, it is not my business if it is positive or negative. The fact that the US-backed government collapsed in two weeks while the Taliban withstood twenty years of war tells me that their government has more popular support among the people.

I am not a practicing Muslim so I have my reservations but if the Afghans shared them then the Taliban wouldn’t have survived and retaken the government.

[–] MelastSB@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

if the Afghans shared [my reservations] then the Taliban wouldn’t have survived and retaken the government.

You're serious? "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun", the Talibans had many guns

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The US-backed government had bigger guns, 20 years in power and US-backing, they still failed. The barrel of a gun doesn't give legitimacy, neither does a foreign military occupation, popular support does.