Afghan Conflict: Russian Political Leader Meets With Massoud

[Gallia-]

I'm saying that societies don't progress linearly. They exist within specific cultures.

If you argue that the Taliban are primitive you're falling into the trap that Edward Said mentions in Orientalism. The Taliban are primitive, feminine, effete, and barbaric. They need to be civilized by White Men who will brandish guns, shoot interlopers, and establish a reign that will convert these wayward savages to a more civilized and enlightened viewpoint. Except the British Empire and whatnot were clever enough to realize that the White Man's Burden is nonsense and just used their colonies for mineral wealth extraction. The United States has Mexico and Canada for this so it's hardly starved for imperial exploited labor forces.

It was just the US State Department unironically believing what a lot of people believe in this thread: That there is a white man's burden needing to be pushed onto the Pashtuns and Afghan Taliban because they are savages who live in mud huts or something I guess. It's raw, unironic colonialism with a tinge of benevolent racism. Yuck.

The Taliban are mostly savages, though I'm still for pulling out.

Yes, we know you're racist against Pashtuns. Most people can put that aside and hash out a deal with different cultures and belief systems, even if they find their beliefs distasteful, though.

You can't really reason with ISIS though, because they're ideological extremists, which is kind of like the United States State Department in a way.

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

Sure, wage slavery and karoshi are better than cutting hands off for looting. Whatever you say Sahib.

If you want to join the "shilling for the Taliban" train you can feel free to join Sai's and Chess's chorus.

This is the most weird insult I have received in my life and I'm not even from Afghanistan.

[Washington Resistance Army]

Taliban establish checkpoints on the outskirts of Kabul ensuring that no women drive vehicles

So much for changing lmao

[Senkaku]

Sure, wage slavery and karoshi are better than cutting hands off for looting. Whatever you say Sahib.

If you want to join the "shilling for the Taliban" train you can feel free to join Sai's and Chess's chorus.

Anyone who does not acknowledge the objective superiority of Western culture over the Asiatic barbarians is “shilling for the Taliban,” got it thx Salus

[Diarcesia]

Taliban establish checkpoints on the outskirts of Kabul ensuring that no women drive vehicles

Anti-fun police.

[The Temple of the Computer]

If you want to join the "shilling for the Taliban" train you can feel free to join Sai's and Chess's chorus.

This is the most weird insult I have received in my life and I'm not even from Afghanistan.

Sai and Chess are also probably not from Afghanistan, and yet they still defend it.

[Salus Maior]

Bro, sending people into this country run by the Taliban is sending them to their deaths. I don’t think you realize that the idea you have is about as logical as Jefferson’s idea to send African-Americans back to Ghana and Nigeria.

How many African Americans do the Taliban kill compared to American police?

I'd say that's more of a matter of opportunity than unwillingness.

Somehow I doubt the Taliban would treat African American culture and trends very kindly if they were ruling over them.

[The Reformed American Republic]

And I'm supposed to care? Though I am going to say a society that doesn't cut off hands is better than one that does.

Sure, wage slavery and karoshi are better than cutting hands off for looting. Whatever you say Sahib.

It is absolutely amusing to watch you effectively defend practices that you obviously do not agree with just because a westerner is judging them. I see that some progressives do have positions that fit right into conservative stereotypes.

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

This is the most weird insult I have received in my life and I'm not even from Afghanistan.

Sai and Chess are also probably not from Afghanistan, and yet they still defend it.

>Defending Talibs
>A Han ethnoid.
>Me
*sensible chuckle*

[Chess Guy]

Ngl there are some pretty based infidels in this thread

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

I didn't know we had this many Victorians amongst us even in 2021.

[Salus Maior]

If you want to join the "shilling for the Taliban" train you can feel free to join Sai's and Chess's chorus.

Anyone who does not acknowledge the objective superiority of Western culture over the Asiatic barbarians is “shilling for the Taliban,” got it thx Salus

If we don't see the Taliban as objectively a worse outcome for Afghanistan why is anyone upset?

Why isn't this being met with a unanimous "meh"? Instead of going on for pages as it is.

[Diarcesia]

Sure, wage slavery and karoshi are better than cutting hands off for looting. Whatever you say Sahib.

It is absolutely amusing to watch you effectively defend practices that you obviously do not agree with just because a westerner is judging them. I see that some progressives do have positions that fit right into conservative stereotypes.

Swing and a miss.

If the US assumes that Taliban would think and work on Western norms and mores the past 20 years, then that's probably why they failed.

[Senkaku]

Sure, wage slavery and karoshi are better than cutting hands off for looting. Whatever you say Sahib.

It is absolutely amusing to watch you effectively defend practices that you obviously do not agree with just because a westerner is judging them. I see that some progressives do have positions that fit right into conservative stereotypes.

Oh my god they’re not “defending” anything the Taliban is doing they’re saying you’re a violently ignorant hick with such a blinkered view of the world that you can’t process a military-political setback for the empire you blindly worship without degrading its enemies as subhuman barbarians without a culture

[Punished UMN]

The Taliban are mostly savages, though I'm still for pulling out.

Yes, we know you're racist against Pashtuns. Most people can put that aside and hash out a deal with different cultures and belief systems, even if they find their beliefs distasteful, though.

You can't really reason with ISIS though, because they're ideological extremists, which is kind of like the United States State Department in a way.

Reminds me of an observation, I believe by Schmitt, that liberals are one of the few groups incapable of negotiating the end to a war, because liberal ideology fundamentally does not acknowledge the legitimacy of its enemies to negotiate peace, and so the only form of peace a liberal can accept is the total destruction of the groups it views as its enemies. While less idealistic ideologies are inclined to view war as a matter of conflicting interests, liberals don't accept that their enemies have legitimate, strategic interests, only that they, as a people, are barbaric and must be crushed.

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

Anyone who does not acknowledge the objective superiority of Western culture over the Asiatic barbarians is “shilling for the Taliban,” got it thx Salus

If we don't see the Taliban as objectively a worse outcome for Afghanistan why is anyone upset?

Why isn't this being met with a unanimous "meh"? Instead of going on for pages as it is.

Because people has to motivate the twenty years America spent erecting cannons in Kabul with something.

[Great Algerstonia]

Complete chaos at Kabul international airport

I see military jeeps. I wonder what they're doing there... are they abandoning the country and attempting to flee, or guarding the plane?

[The Reformed American Republic]

And with regards to advocating cultural absolutism given the assumption cultural relativism is bad... it does seem coincidental that what is "right" happens to have a lot of overlap with what is Western. Curious. I'm talking about a seemingly unsaid implication that if cultural absolutism is correct, those values should be imposed.

This is some forms of leftism literally twisting itself into absurdity. I'm sure you would not tolerate if I wanted to impose sexist laws against women, but yet because they're brown Muslims they get a pass from you.

[Washington Resistance Army]

It is absolutely amusing to watch you effectively defend practices that you obviously do not agree with just because a westerner is judging them. I see that some progressives do have positions that fit right into conservative stereotypes.

Oh my god they’re not “defending” anything the Taliban is doing they’re saying you’re a violently ignorant hick with such a blinkered view of the world that you can’t process a military-political setback for the empire you blindly worship without degrading its enemies as subhuman barbarians without a culture

Sai and Chess very much are defending the Taliban. The latter is a straight up fanboy who thinks bin Laden was a hero and Sai is Sai.

[Unified Communist Councils]

It's become more than white man's burden, it is now mankind's burden to uphold civil and human rights— regardless of ones take on these aforementioned rights.

[The Reformed American Republic]

It is absolutely amusing to watch you effectively defend practices that you obviously do not agree with just because a westerner is judging them. I see that some progressives do have positions that fit right into conservative stereotypes.

Swing and a miss.

If the US assumes that Taliban would think and work on Western norms and mores the past 20 years, then that's probably why they failed.

I'm for pulling out anyway.

[Senkaku]

Anyone who does not acknowledge the objective superiority of Western culture over the Asiatic barbarians is “shilling for the Taliban,” got it thx Salus

If we don't see the Taliban as objectively a worse outcome for Afghanistan why is anyone upset?

Because murder and killing and repression are still bad, regardless of who’s doing them to who or why they’re doing it? Because regime overturns are scary periods where terrible and unexpected things can happen?

Why isn't this being met with a unanimous "meh"? Instead of going on for pages as it is.

I mean, at the highest foreign policy levels, it is. We just seem to have a lot of feelings about it, as you might expect after 20 years of arguing about it.

[Saiwania]

If you want to join the "shilling for the Taliban" train you can feel free to join Sai's and Chess's chorus.

I'm just telling it like it is. I'm not on the Taliban's side ideologically, but can recognize that perhaps they're the best fit for Afghanistan if they have the local support and mandate to rule there. I don't have sympathy but could try to strive to have empathy with regards to them if they're not the same as ISIS.

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

Oh my god they’re not “defending” anything the Taliban is doing they’re saying you’re a violently ignorant hick with such a blinkered view of the world that you can’t process a military-political setback for the empire you blindly worship without degrading its enemies as subhuman barbarians without a culture

Sai and Chess very much are defending the Taliban. The latter is a straight up fanboy who thinks bin Laden was a hero and Sai is Sai.

Not me though, I'm just enjoying the "Blinkered" Kiplingism with popcorn.

[Gallia-]

I didn't know we had this many Victorians amongst us even in 2021.

Yeah it's weird. Not even the Victorians were this racist IRL though. Actual Victorians could put aside their racism in exchange for real, actual gains, generally in material or political terms.

The United States just wants (wanted?) to wage holy war against anything it finds distasteful or ugly for some wild reason. Then it gets shocked when people disagree with it like they're wrong or something, because, tch, obviously. Even Vietnam, China, and Korea had the ostensible (if misguided) goal of stopping International Communism (a myth the State Department believed to exist and ignored the Sino-Soviet split). The Taliban war should have ended in December of 2001 at the latest when bin Laden fled to Pakistan.