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The Washington Post does a piece on how Afgahnaistan has changed after President Biden pulled American troops from the country to leave the Taliban in charge….The piece focuses on Kabul the large urban city….
It is one thing to overthrown the control of a country and another to make the same place work….
Especially if the conquers come from the rual countryside to the cities…..
ALL the talk of progress is hindered by the reality that woman are held as second class and THAT will keep the country form advanceing past a certain point that other Muslim countries have….
Some of the Taliban fighters now regret the material success they sacrificed to wage their armed campaign. Just the other day, Rahmani recalled, another Taliban soldier told him he was sad because he and his brother had given up their schooling. “If we had studied, we’d be sitting in offices now,” he told Rahmani.
There are no signs that these changes have resulted in a softening of the Taliban’s repressive policies, in particular the campaign against women’s rights. And no doubt, for many of the fighters who in 2021 sped into the Afghan capital on the backs of pickup trucks, this city of about 5 million people is a disappointment. They say urban life is lonelier, more stressful and less religious than they had imagined.
Some of the Taliban fighters had grown up here before departing for rural Afghanistan to join the insurgency. Others never left and supported the Taliban as informants. But for most of the men who overtook the Afghan capital, the city’s bright lights were unfamiliar, and Kabul posed a challenge full of seductions….
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