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Taliban Militants Fed Up With Office Culture, Ready to Quiet Quit (time.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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Time magazine: "we don't know how yet, but we're gonna find a way to link the rise of fascism and avocado toast"

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[–] ZaroniPepperoni@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I sure hope your right, but we did not just give them stuff and tell them to figure it out, we trained them for 20 years, with the most experienced soldiers in the world. It's obviously a motivation and culture issue, so maybe after they realize how shit things have gone they may make a change, but I am not holding my breath.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

The US invasion of Afghanistan basically paused Afghani political progress for 20 years, because they were too busy fighting a foreign invader. Doesn't help that the US-backed government was famously corrupt. Change in the Afghani political sphere was always going to start after, not before, the US pulled out of Afghanistan.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

We gave them that training. They didn't earn it. They didn't seek it, nothing. And because it wasn't something that they earned, they squandered it.

We're enabling them. We're not doing the most helpful thing by giving them all this hardware and training. The most helpful thing would be sending them a bunch of LSD microdose pills.