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[–] pandapoo@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago (15 children)

.....and how many more years of military occupation would have prevented that?

[–] boreengreen@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (8 children)

A generarion or two. If you invade; you better be prepared to build the state as well.

[–] pandapoo@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I don't even know where to begin with the levels of idiocy contained in your remark.

Like, do I start with the realities of how Western PMC mineral extraction fed into the cycle of extremism and poverty, the problems inherent with trying to use foreign military occupation to create a functioning centralized state out of a tribal society who's only a nation because colonial powers drew lines on maps, or just the raw racism of believing that the white saviors should invade and occupy poor brown countries because we have to show those savages how to be better people.

[–] j_overgrens@feddit.nl -4 points 2 months ago

Afghanistan did not arise as a result from colonial powers. That's false and completely ignores the self determination of Afghans.

Also, the stuff you're saying about how the country was just a simple, tribal place is actually very hurtful. Borderline racist.

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