mustang19 posted:

Crow posted:

Karzai isn't helping women you moron

yeah, but he's not actively harming them as much as the taliban.

http://www.rawa.org/rules.htm

RAWA you say?? Hmm, that seems familiar, maybe... smething... maybe they said something just a couple posts up... HMMMM BLeaUEAUEAGH


Though we don’t expect anything different from the most corrupt and dirty puppet regime of the world, the pain of Afghan women turns chronic when the world believes that the US and NATO has donated liberation, democracy and human and women rights for Afghanistan; whereas, after eight years of the US and allies’ aggression under the banner of “war on terror”, they empowered the most brutal terrorists of the Northern Alliance and the former Russian puppets – the Khalqis and Parchamis – and by relying on them, the US imposed a puppet government on Afghan people. And instead of uprooting its Taliban and Al-Qaeda creations, the US and NATO continues to kill our innocent and poor civilians, mostly women and children, in their vicious air raids.

mustang19 posted:

anyway i'll make your argument for you crow, i know you'll like it. the one argument for supporting neither side, and pulling out all support for the karzai government to watch it collapse is that it'll just plain make the place less violent. it'll be under the taliban within weeks, but perpetual sharia law might make things more peaceful than they are now. since i'm not an afghan womyn i can't say. but i guess i'll go with rawa.

thanks for the thread, it was an honor to waste all of your time.

you dont know what sharia law means. You might as well say Asscat. Perpetual Asscat might make things more peaceful than they are now. Thats better

Both newly-organised and veteran Syrian opposition coalitions have long preferred to keep the billions of dollars provided by the Qatar monarchy for the battle against the Syrian government in their own personal bank accounts in the USA and other countries. After receiving enormous sums of money, meanwhile, several leaders of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) have disappeared for good, virtually breaking all ties with the revolution. For this reason, donors in Qatar decided several months ago that they would only finance specific military operations in Syria, which in turn led to an increase in the number of ostentatious, and therefore weak, attacks.

These attacks did not secure any military victories for the Syrian opposition, but they meant that money could carry on being siphoned off from Qatar and ensured much-needed publicity in the media. And while the leaders were enjoying the high life, rank-and-file rebels were getting less than 200 dollars a month. The leaders’ conniving lust for money was perfected to such an extent that Qatar was soon being provided with lists of non-existent rebels claiming salaries. This money was then also pushed firmly down into the pockets of high-ranking officials.

the implications here is that a war fought by mercenaries funded by outside sources (which is how all wars will be fought until WWIII) operates according to the logic of capital, and big surprise the free market doesn't work very well. the war in syria has become more of an advertisement in the western media and among mercenaries vying for funding (sponsorship you could say).

mustang19 posted:

jools posted:

first, you get da comprador warlords. tehn, you get da opium. then you get da communist revolution

maybe, supposedly obama will withdraw in 2015 (formerly 2014, formerly 2002) and we'll see then.

this military strategy is called Just The Tip

mustang19 posted:

jools posted:

look if youre just going to whine every time you repeat the imperialist crap that drips out of newsweek (rip) or the nyt or whatever and everyone jumps down your throat i dont know what the point is. thats kind of our "thing" here. you know

i'm not offended or anything.

i just wonder how this thread got three pages in five minutes, that's pretty amazing considering how slow this place normally is.

b/c you werent posting about your jeans i guess