• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    We don’t need to respect their customs.

    We do if we want to move military personal through their territory without resistance.

    Back when Americans were occupying Afghanistan, we had a seemingly unlimited tolerance for sexual abuse of minors and narco trafficking in the state. We needed the warlords to secure territory and the drug lords to underpin the local economy, in order to contain reactionary religious ideology.

    Only after we left did we rediscover our duty to Afghan civilians.

    people’s need for emotional healthy relationships which are often in conflict with elements in their cultures that only feel entitled to dominate

    I don’t know how else you describe detonating the world’s largest fuel bomb over Nangarhar Province, if you’re not describing it as “entitlement to dominate”.

    We weren’t in Afghanistan handing out hugs and flowers. We were killing dissidents en mass in order to suppress revolt.

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      22 days ago

      You’re describing the political reality and I get that, it’s expedient. But that doesn’t mean it is also moral.

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        22 days ago

        No, not at all. But then neither is looting the Afghani Treasury and sanctioning the country into a state of national famine.