• TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Maybe, if we hadn’t bombed their country for 20 years they’d have a higher standard of living. We’ll never know though

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        Maybe it Britain hadn’t fucked up the entire region when the sun didn’t set on their empire, Afghanistan would have a higher standard of living. We’ll still never know.

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        1 year ago

        You think aid is going to stop the Taliban. We’re aiding a country we bombed, because of terrorists we created, because the Soviet Union was spreading communism. We’re deriving solutions to problems we created.

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          You think aid is going to stop the Taliban

          I do? Weird, I thought what I thought was that it was going to help Afghan women and nothing else due to restrictions put on the funding. That’s what the article said. You read it, right?

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            1 year ago

            Unfortunately I can’t read well do to astigmatism, so I had my daughter read it to me. It said “a specter is haunting America - the specter of enlightened centrism.” What does that mean?

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          Are you suggesting that we shouldn’t try to solve problems that we created? That if we create a problem, intentionally or not, that we should just say to the world “ok you deal with it now”?

          Because that sure seems like what you’re saying here.

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            1 year ago

            That is exactly what I am saying. Did the Taliban ask for our help? Would our government accept aid from China to curb homelessness here? With restrictions of course that it be used only for food and clothing. They are a sovereign nation. We are usurping their authority. And we wonder why they hate us.

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              Well that’s one of the more fucked up and asinine things I’ve heard in a while.

              You know countries can refuse aide, right? Nobody is forcing them to accept the money. Because, you know, they’re a sovereign nation with the authority to make decisions for themselves. You even said it yourself

              Would our government accept aid from China

              China offering us aid doesn’t “usurpe our authority”. How the heck did you even come up with that nonsense.

              But hey, believe whatever you want. Me, I think we should take responsibility for the harm we’ve done to the world and offer to make amends in some way or another. I don’t think it’s right to take a shit in somebody else’s yard and tell them it’s their problem. But again, that’s me.