• breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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?

    • مهما طال الليل@lemm.eeOPM
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      3 months ago

      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.

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        3 months ago

        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

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          3 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.