38 million Afghans are waiting, fearful, to find out how their latest rulers will govern. If history is any indication, it will not end well for anyone who does not believe exactly what the Taliban believes. That’s not America’s fault, but we have played a central role for the last twenty years by starting something we could not finish. The question now for America is: what do we do about it? One thing that is abundantly clear is that the Taliban cannot be trusted. So, the challenge becomes: how to establish a relationship with the Taliban without normalizing the barbaric religious fundamentalists and their rise to power. The withdrawal from Afghanistan was inevitable. But America’s next moves are critical. There are plenty of governments in the world that are anti-democratic without being outright demonic. We must find some way to support the Afghan people, stave off terror, while preventing the Taliban from joining the ranks of legitimate governments and the privileges they enjoy.
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Velshi: Some Governments Are Empirically Evil. The Taliban Is One Of Them.
We cooperate with the Sadi’s, just as brutal. So our hands are not clean here.
@J David Hopkins So the 1930’s government that was in Germany could not be called evil as they attempted to exterminate a religious group while experimenting on them as well?
To put your statement in another way:
“There does not exist any government that is evil.” which implies “Every government is not evil.” by Moore’s law. You’ve claimed the 1930’s Germany and Holocaust to be perfectly fine.
Now, is the Taliban an example of such a thing? I don’t know, but you didn’t make an argument. You just said that it is necessary to give it a pass because labels are bad, but there has to be some inherent placement of governments on graphs so we can compare actions. Otherwise, we are stuck with ignoring all that governments can do. What’s worse is if I cannot look at the acts of groups of people, by your logic, I should not be able to look at the acts of an individual because I would still be judging.
@Ronald King No, ‘evil’ is not determined by & is undefinable by Man. But, Man does judge Man by Man’s Laws.
@Ronald King
“evil” is rather meaningless outside of a religious context. We could all agree that something particularly heinous was “evil”, but it would probably be better to choose a more specific and meaningful word. I might call the Taliban “evil”, but I recognize that I would be speaking metaphorically, and subjectively.
@J David Hopkins The Taliban is clearly evil
@Belly Dancer Em Since you aren’t God, your opinion is irrelevant.
The taliban had two goals, get the foreign troops out and install sharia law, sunni Saudi Arabia style. Many Islamic countries have sharia law but differ in strictness, Saudi Arabia being very stric, whom also build and financed madrassas around the world.
Sharia Law by the Taliban is torturous and Biden is 100% responsible
@Bay
How so? Did Biden make the Taliban impose Sharia law?
@Jock Young Biden armed the Taliban with $80B in military equipment and now wants to continue to fund terrorism by paying ransoms for the Americans he abandoned
So. What. Velshi should suggest starting with Honduras and Haiti, if he wants to fix the problems WE caused. And quit droning Yemen. This has more to do with protecting Israel and Saudi Arabia than us.
“That republican abortion law in Texas is a bit extreme.” – the taliban
@Aaron Christoffersen what you don’t understand because of the pea brain is we are standing for the unborn children’s right to choose. But we can see you surface thinkers have little in depth thought 💭
@Jock Young Human life is more important than a women’s right to slay her potential child. You can whine all you want but murder is murder.
@Diane K. Kovacs
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@Snow Flake What guns laws are you referring to? Which laws are the Democrats holding to? What percentage of Republicans follow Sharia Law? How many Republicans that identify themselves as female are missing fingers? How many Republicans females have been stoned to death for adulterous activitiesin the United States?
Don’t mince your words, tell us what you really think 🙂
“In the name of a faith that they have perverted.”
How did they pervert it if you call them FUNDAMENTALISTS?
I don’t see them having an Enlightenment style reform since we’re already in a global civilization and they still want to live with stone age traditions. Do other islamic countries not have issues with honor killings and segregation and all? Are we about to invade Saudi Arabia?
Fundamentalism is almost always a perverse interpretation of religion. And yes, Saudi Arabia is also a nasty theocracy, but just not QUITE as bad.
“Fund-a-mental”
ism or ist.
Add money to anything and it becomes all about greed.
that’s what fundementalists do. They pervert religion. Just like Evangelicals perveted Christianity here in America
You just described right wing christian gun nuts . Lol Welcome to America. Hahaha
Your statement is pure anti-Christian and anti-American propaganda. Freedom of Religion and Right to Bear arms.
Nothing that has come out of the abrahamic religious mythology has ended well, all end up being fully fascistic in it’s end and the ones that are not extremists are silently complicit , witch makes them as complicit in the atrocities as the ones pulling the trigger and torturing.
Athiests helped grow the Nazi movement.
“We can not be taliban allies”
Mujahideen in 1980’s: That’s a bingo!!
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empirically evil is the republican taliban of the USA. Talk about BARBARIC.
😂 Do Saudi Arabia next (keep the same energy)
I couldn’t agree more. These people need to be humbled down by putting a mushroom cloud in the heart of their pride.
It sounds like they all would rather “”get along ”’with the Taliban…..to somehow justify ….sending back the afghan refugees rather then giving them refuge. It is sickening. Most americans are not aware of the millions of refugees that somehow try to find safety in Europe because of american wars that made them refugees…..what a sad show that is
And we gave them 80 billion dollars in weapons. Good job Biden 😎
A growing number of people are becoming dissatisfied with Biden’s handling of the pandemic, according to new poll numbers.
The US government is surely in top of them!
The Taliban are the legitimate leaders. They want sharia law. Leave them alone.
I’m sure Democrats will pay the same respect to our 13 fallen soldiers as they did to Fentanyl Floyd.
So when ISIS goes to war with the Taliban, then what? What happened to “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”. I’m not saying become best buddies with the Taliban, but if they are now the ruling government and they start making overtures for peace, trade, with the U.S. we can’t summarily dismiss them if the alternative is ISIS taking over. I predict a short alliance, ugly as it may be.