Afghanistan may be among the most humanitarian deployments the US military has done. The infant mortality rate fell significantly while the US was there, and women had the freedom to go to school and participate in the economy without violent oppression.
Our mistake in Afghanistan was that we didn’t build a lasting change. We gave arms to the wrong people. We should’ve been training and arming the women to fight back and protect their democracy. Not men who were going to be fine either way.
You have no Idea how much I agree with that statement.
I am from Switzerland, where everyone has to serve. I always thought that this was a stabilizing factor in our country, since the military power in the country is also the democratic power in the country.
So I never understood why they wouldn’t arm the very people who are most likely to be suppressed and instead arm the people who are likely to do the suppressing.
Women would have been inspired for the cause, they would have been willing and motivated. The men apparently weren’t.
Afghanistan may be among the most humanitarian deployments the US military has done. The infant mortality rate fell significantly while the US was there, and women had the freedom to go to school and participate in the economy without violent oppression.
Our mistake in Afghanistan was that we didn’t build a lasting change. We gave arms to the wrong people. We should’ve been training and arming the women to fight back and protect their democracy. Not men who were going to be fine either way.
You have no Idea how much I agree with that statement.
I am from Switzerland, where everyone has to serve. I always thought that this was a stabilizing factor in our country, since the military power in the country is also the democratic power in the country.
So I never understood why they wouldn’t arm the very people who are most likely to be suppressed and instead arm the people who are likely to do the suppressing.
Women would have been inspired for the cause, they would have been willing and motivated. The men apparently weren’t.